by Speech Pathologist Kerry | Oct 2, 2026 | Blog For Therapists
Treating phonological delays is nothing new for most speech-language pathologists. We can easily identify stopping, fronting, gliding, cluster reduction and depalatisation and we know how to use the minimal pairs approach, the complexity approach, the cycles approach...
by Speech Pathologist Kerry | Sep 2, 2026 | Blog For Therapists
As speech-language pathologists, we are well versed in phonological delays. We know what fronting looks like, we can spot cluster reduction from across the room, and stopping barely makes us blink. But what happens when a child’s errors don’t fit the...
by Speech Pathologist Kerry | Aug 4, 2026 | Blog For Therapists
“Articulation therapy by itself will not generalise if the lingual rest posture remains low and forward. If you’re up high, that’s where you start. If you’re down low, that’s where you start.” — Linda D’Onofrio, Speech Pathologist We’ve all seen it. A child produces...
by Speech Pathologist Kerry | Jul 2, 2026 | Blog For Therapists
Play is how children learn about their environment and about the world around them. I love this quote from Leo F. Buscaglia “It is paradoxical that many educators and parents still differentiate between a time for learning and a time for play without seeing the vital...
by Speech Pathologist Kerry | Jun 11, 2026 | Blog For Therapists
Does this sound familiar: A young client walks into your therapy room and immediately tips out a box of toys, scattering the contents across the floor. As you bend down to tidy up, they grab the markers and sweep them off the table. You turn to collect your visual...
by Speech Pathologist Kerry | Jun 4, 2026 | Blog For Therapists
There’s a practice that has quietly become standard in speech pathology, one so widespread that many of us have never stopped to question it. I know I didn’t — not for a long time. It goes like this: a child says “wabbit” for...
