Wondering whether your child needs speech therapy? This conversational guide covers age-by-age communication milestones, signs worth watching, practical home strategies, and what to expect from an assessment.

A discussion of how and why emotion can affect our communication, as well as how speech therapy can support you to build a stronger voice for yourself or your child.

The Importance of Phonetics in Communication One of the fundamental aspects of speech therapy is the understanding and use of speech sounds. Speech sounds, or phonemes, are the smallest units of sound that can differentiate meaning in a language. For example, This could be the single sound /p/ and all the levels involved in creating this sound (i.e. where should my tongue be placed?). Speech sounds are crucial for effective verbal communication, as well as the speech sound di