About Me

I began this blog in an attempt to help parents be able to best guide their children in the development of speech and language. I'd like to do this by providing some guidelines and activities to encourage development in this area. I additionally would like to provide parents with some reasurrance about when it's necessary and appropriate to seek a speech-language evaluation and when it's not.
If you have a child already in speech and langauge therapy, you might find some useful activities here that you can do at home with your child to help facilitate and maybe even expidite the therapy process.
I received my Masters Degree from California State University, Northridge in 1990 and have since workied in many settings including schools, clinics, private practices, hospitals, nursing homes and home health with both children (developmental & rehabilitative) and adults (rehabilitative). I currently live in Denver, Colorado with my 2 children.
~Tami







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Hi,
I am interested in purchasing text advertising at some specific pages of http://speechtherapyweb.com. Let me know if you are interested, so that we can discuss it further. I can make a good offer to make it worth your time.
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Tom Taylor
Tom,
I would be interested in talking with you further about this. Please email me at tami@speechtherapyweb.com and we can discuss this further.
Thank you,
Tami
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Hi,
Thanks for dropping by my blog a few times…I would like to ask you about speech therapy, collaborating and possibly having you as a guest on the show sometime…let me know if interested.
Talk to you soon,
Patty
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Glad to see your page! I am happy to help contribute any advice or suggestions. I have been an slp for the past 8 years and I think working with parents and other professionals is the best way to help people with speech and language needs!
Hi Tami,
I think you have terrific site. I would very much like to exchange reciprocal links with your site. I'm a speech-language pathologist living and working in Victoria, Australia. My website is
http://www.speechlanguage-resources.com It's an information based site about language disorder in school-aged children. If you would like to exchange links then please let me know.
Hope to hear from you
Kind Regards
David Newman
Hi David,
Sure, I would be happy to exchange links with you. Let me know what you need from me and which page on your site you'll ad my link to.
I will add your link to my home page on the right side bar.
Thanks,
Tami
Hi Tami,
My daughter is just turning seven and I have noticed over the last few months I cannot understand her words that have "or" together. For example, four sounds like fur, door sounds like dur. I do not hear any other articulation problems. People always would say that she had a cute accent, but suddenly there are many words I cannot understand. I have been trying to search the web for suggestions but cannot find anything, and then I came across your site. Just checking to see if you have advice on what to do next.
Thank you,
Marissa
Hi Marissa,
Since your daughter is already 7 and not picking up this vowel r combination, I would encourage you to take her for some private speech therapy. She probably won't need much to get this corrected, but the public school won't provide her with speech therapy as this is most likely not impacting her education. Where do you live? I can possibly help you find some resources in your area.
Tami
Hi Tami,
I am a graduate of Cal State Northridge in 2008 with my Bachelors Degree. I am now applying to CSUN for my Masters degree in Communication Disorders and Sciences. I work with early childhood intervention ages 18 months to 3 years of age. I was wondering what you think about the SLP-Assistant license program, and if you know whether or not I am able to practice in the medical field or not for instance a rehabilitation center in CA?
I just wanted to get your opinion on this , when I saw that you graduated from CSUN I thought maybe she knows?
Thanks for all of your help.
Im glad that i found your site.It is very interesting.Keep up the good work..
Please help me i am a indian my name is Richi.. my main problem is stammering Plz help me
Hi !Tamy, Good day, my son would be 4 year in coming may this year but have not started speaking, infact we contacted the speech therapist in india but my son is hyper in nature and did not support the speech therapist even.pls suggest ..
regards..
Hi Tamy,
Your site is great. I recently started a website and would like to exchange links. My website is called http://www.everythingspeech.com
Please let me know if you are interested.
HI Tamy,
Great website:) I really like your tips for parents, do you have anything similar I can print out to give to school aged kids' parents? thanks!
Hi,
My son is 3 and half years old. He has problem in framing sentences by his own, Otherwise he is good in vocabulary, alphabets, colors, counting even addition and subtraction of small numbers, singing nursery rhymes, prayers etc. He even takes all commands like keep the dish in sink, wash hands, throw paper in dustbin. He recognizes and knows the name of every member of the house also he knows the house numbers of all his friends living in society. He also knows few spellings of words like 'my, to, top, and, cat, dog, top, god'. His teacher also tells me that he is good in recognizing alphabets and numbers and he is first one to recognize any alphabet or number shown in the class.
But when it comes to framing of sentences by his own or telling stories or if ask him what he learned in the school he is not able to tell me e.g. if he has learnt formation of alphabet D he will not say "Mamma I learnt D". He will just tell me "Mamma D, Baby D and friend D" Or like if he needs a chocolate he will never say "Mamma I need chocolate" he will just say one word "chocolate". Please help me, how should I help my child to help him framing sentences and be talkative.
Worried Mom,
Dimple
Great blog! I needed speech therapy when I was in 1st-2nd grade and it made a huge difference in my life. This is such an important issue for parents to learn about
Tami, thank you for providing these tips and guidance for parents. Visual Speech Therapy definitely puts in a good word for what you're doing.
Keep it up!
Hi Tami,
My child is not able to speak sentences. He is 5 yrs old.
Docs have told us that he is having symptoms of a Down's child.
Kindly help me out. If there are some CDs which can be used for speech therapy on computer it would be great.
Would greatly appreciate your advise/help.
Hi Harish,
I think the best thing for you to do it take your child to a speech pathologitst for an evaluation. It sounds like you were told by a doctor, but I would really encourage you, if you haven't already, to take your son for a speech/language or developmental evaluation. You can ask your doctor for a referral or you can call your local school district. There are private clinics you can go to or you can also scedule an evaluation at Children't Hospital. Maybe this article will help -
http://speechtherapyweb.com/speech-language-evaluation-process
Good luck to you.
Tami
Speech therapy IS the most important factor in some children's live. It is an absolute MUST for some children.