by Kerry Townley-O’Neill | Nov 17, 2021 | Children
Just like learning a new sport or playing an instrument, numerous repetitions are needed to develop muscle memory for our articulators (teeth, tongue, jaw) and our brain! It is important to complete home practice so these new skills are carried over to new...
by Kerry Townley-O’Neill | Feb 12, 2021 | Adults, Children, Seniors, Teenagers
“I don’t feel like eating as much as I loved to.” “It always gets stuck in my throat; I’m scared to eat.” “I don’t want to eat out with friends anymore, it’s embarrassing.” Just like breathing, swallowing is something most of us do unconsciously. It is so essential to...
by Kerry Townley-O’Neill | Mar 27, 2020 | Adults, Children, Seniors, Teenagers
Our Speech Pathologists are currently seeing clients online! While we seem to have found ourselves at a unique time in the world where the fantastic goals of improving systems and moving online has suddenly become a fact of necessity, there are many rapid changes...
by Kerry Townley-O’Neill | Jun 4, 2018 | Children
Rhythm is with us all the time, but our sense of rhythm does not always work actively and effectively. Sometimes we need to teach our body to find its rhythm. When we can’t find our rhythm, our body is not connected optimally to our brain which, in turn, affects how...
by Kerry Townley-O’Neill | Feb 15, 2018 | Children
It’s trendy to live with a belief in ‘no boundaries’ but in fact, just as we need to understand ‘fall off your bike’ before we can understand ‘don’t fall off your bike’ (the previous post, The Power of ‘Don’t’, explains this concept), we need to...
