OUTPATIENT SERVICES SPEECH-LANGUAGE PATHOLOGY DEPARTMENT

TLC's Speech-Language Pathology Department offers pediatric and adult voice therapy. Not sure if your child needs a Voice Evaluation? Here is some information to help you decide next steps:

If your child's voice is...

Rough, breathy, strained, or strangled

Abnormally high, low, loud or soft

Often weaker by the end of the day or after speaking

Interrupted by frequent coughing, throat clearing, or breathlessness

Suddenly different in some unexplained but noticeable way

...they may benefit from a voice evaluation!

Pediatric and Adult Voice Therapy

Pediatric voice disorders often go undiagnosed and untreated, which can lead to social, educational, and physiological complications.

Consult with one of TLC's speech-language pathologists who specializes in voice and vocal pathology to see if your child is a candidate for a comprehensive voice evaluation.

SPEECH-LANGUAGE PATHOLOGY AND OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY

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Regulating Outdoor Activities For Summer

There are countless benefits of working on cognitive, motor, social-emotional, sensory processing, and life skill development in a child’s natural environment. Natural environments for children include any place they go throughout their day to participate in age-appropriate and meaningful occupations. This could include but is not limited to their home, school, playgrounds, and the outdoors. What better time to explore your child’s natural environments through play to build or maintain skills while the Summer is still here. This also creates a positive, bonding opportunity for you and your child that feels more like making space for play and quality time rather than for highly structured, skill building.

The following suggested activities are specific to the outdoors because spending time in nature provides increased opportunity for calming and regulating sensory input, a chance to practice adapting to changes in a somewhat unpredictable environment, problemsolving, creativity and imagination, and sustained attention without the use of technology. It also provides an environment that organically challenges a child’s gross motor skills, fine motor skills, and core strength and stability. A few “take-home” ideas for how to intentionally engage your child in regulating activities include: