Speech & Occupational Therapy of North Texas
Clinic Locations in Frisco, McKinney & Plano – and Serving the Surrounding Communities.
A r y n C . S o l l a r s Patient Coordinator Aryn’s job is similar to Nancy Holmes’ job. She checks benefits, talks with parents about insurance, and interfaces with physicians and insurance companies to keep insurance working as smoothly as possible C a r m…
DetailsMackenzie Stauffer, SLP Jennifer Sananikone, SLP Dianne Holt, ORR Susan Krejci, MS, BCMA and more
DetailsEarly Childhood Intervention is critical for treating speech and language disorders as well as self-help and motor disorders in young children. Speech and language disorders are the most prevalent developmental delays during the first three years of life. Without intervention a child may likely continue to experience long term difficulties related to language (Lombardino &…
DetailsNormal Disfluency Between the ages of two and five, many children pass through periods of disfluency often referred to as stuttering. Repetitions, interjections, revisions, prolongations, and pauses are commonly heard during this stage of language development. When the average child is between two and three-and-a-half, disfluencies reach 10 per 100 words spoken, and may be…
DetailsI believe that most individuals on the autism spectrum have atypical sensory systems. We have five senses, and any, more or all can be impacted so that an individual with ASD perceives information differently from the “general population”. Individuals with autism spectrum disorders often do not pick up on extra linguistic cues, such as facial…
DetailsMore and more research is identifying the importance of protecting the unborn infant from environmental toxins. “Exposure in utero or in children affects their developing nervous, immune, and endocrine systems causing permanent changes (Miller, Palmer, 2011)”. A recent publication from the UT Health Science Center in Houston shared the following suggestions: The Precautionary Principal in…
DetailsAccording to a recent study headed by Dr. Pauline A. Filipek, MD, at the UT Health Science Center in Houston, social communication deficits are measurable in very young infants at risk for autism spectrum disorders. Dr. Filipek presented her findings at a recent conference sponsored by the Texas Autism Research & Resource Center (TARRC). Dr.…
DetailsHelp the child understand hunger cues or the sensation of hunger and associate this with the act of eating through the use of concrete language and a predictable chain of events. (You know your child is hungry – so you model “I am hungry”, then get a small snack and go to the table to…
DetailsBy Anne Russell Bramlett, MS, CCC/SLP Many of our children on the autism spectrum use echolalia, which is the repetition of another’s speech that occurs either immediately, or even later, after the original production. According to Barry Prizant (1987) echolalia is characteristic of least 85% of children with autism who acquire speech. In the past,…
DetailsWhen you realize that your child’s development is delayed or not progressing as you had hoped, it can be overwhelming. Many parents in recent years have learned the importance of early childhood intervention for developmental concerns. Early intervention is the process of seeking and utilizing the various therapeutic services available in our community to help…
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