Kim Scanlon, a licensed speech pathologist and a member of ASHA, urges parents to trust their instincts. She says, “If a parent is worried about his or her child’s ability to communicate and ...

However, several parents reached out to KPRC 2, saying the layoffs affected their child’s speech therapist. Benjamin Zimmerman’s son, Artie, has trouble communicating due to an autism diagnosis.

As a child, Jernej Fuzir struggled with a speech impediment. A whopping 95% of a child’s cognitive development takes place by the time they’re five years old, and verbal and nonverbal ...

Reece Barnes meets with his speech therapist every week. He walks down the hallway at his rural Burney, Calif., school and chats with her one-on-one, even though she is four hours away in another ...

When the world shut down in the spring of 2020, many speech-language pathologists told me, they were quick to adapt. A lot of practices immediately pivoted to teletherapy, often successfully.