Why Toe Walking Is NOT Idiopathic
For far too long, therapists and physicians have been getting it all wrong when it comes to toe walking in children! The cause is not short muscles; the solution is not stretching. It is not …
Dispelling the Top 3 Swallow Myths
Speech-language pathologists are faced with a great deal of information about swallow interventions. This information comes to us from a wide variety of sources – websites, journals, blogs, and other clinicians – and can often…
Managing Stress and Anxiety Is As Easy As ABC
A busy mind. Tight shoulders. Cluttered thinking. Butterflies in the stomach. The experience of stress is all too familiar to patients and professionals alike. That said, we can all acknowledge that a little bit of…
Seven Tips for Treating Pediatric Speech Sound Disorders
You have heard the phrase, and maybe even used the phrase, “Twelve kids on my caseload are ‘just artic’.” Certainly, compared to cases that are highly cognitively and medically complex, speech sound disorders (SSD) seem…
Good Evaluations Guide Treatment (Part 2): The Clinical Examination and Scope of Practice
This is Part 2 of a two-part series focusing on the clinical examination process. Part 1 — Good Evaluations Guide Treatment: What Are We Doing Wrong? — shared a practical clinical example (see the case…
Why Therapists Love MedBridge
