Deer Speech Therapy

Have you heard of saying “neurons that fire together wire together”? It is a saying from neuropsychologist Donald Hebb stating, repeated thoughts and actions create and strengthen neural pathways. Repeated thoughts and actions become easier and automatic as the pathways become stronger. Just like lifting weights gets our muscles stronger, thinking strengthens neural pathways. Neural pathway development is especially important for children with apraxia. Verbal apraxia ca

This is a little story about teaching speech resiliency. Please note - this blog is focused on speech production, however the same...

What is coaching and why do we do it? Coaching looks a lot different than a traditional therapy model. Sometimes parents are a little...

When I was a graduate clinician at Florida State University, I saw my first client in the clinic on campus. I learned about autism in...

On Christmas this year, I opened up my gifts from y sister and in it I found a homework assignment from my niece, Sharon! The letter...

TACA is an organization that stands for “Talk About Curing Autism”. This organization is run by parents for parents. TACA provides a...

Becoming Verbal with Childhood Apraxia written by Pam Marshalla is one of my favorite books. It is an excellent read for parents and for...

Why do so many children have difficulty with the “R” sound? When should my child start speech therapy for the “R” sound? This is one of...

The following is a short story written by a young man who stutters. I love how this story illustrats what it is like to live with a...

Cooking is my favorite therapy activity of all times! It benefits children of all ages with a variety of speech and language needs. I...

Autism is a hot topic these days with the growing prevalence of it. Because of that, so many different treatment programs have been...

You might be wondering what is the difference between child-directed therapy and clinician-directed therapy. Also…which approach is best...

To bring toys or not to bring toys….that is the question! Speech language pathologists and other professionals who work in the natural...

I always had a passion working with people with autism. In my graduate studies at Florida State University I took not one but two...

All speech language pathologists target articulation and speech development but not all speech therapists target motivation. I was...

Welcome to my first blog. My name is Laura and I am the preferred home-based speech therapist in Los Angeles. I provide therapy in all...