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Pediatric Therapy Improves Feeding Problems in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders

Feeding problems are common among children on the autism spectrum. Eating difficulties have negative effects on a child’s physical, developmental, and psychosocial problems. Constant battles surrounding food makes mealtimes difficult and frustrating instead of opportunities for families to bond. Fortunately, working with occupational or speech therapy on the underlying issues behind the feeding difficulties provides …

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Making Therapy FUN

FUN is at the core of everything we do at FUNctionabilities. Because of this, children don’t even realize how hard they are actually working when receiving our lasting pediatric therapy. Our focus is on making therapy FUN. Deciding on a name for our pediatric therapy clinic was both easy and hard. We put a lot …

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What to Expect During a Speech Therapy Evaluation

The word ‘evaluation’ can sound intimidating, especially for parents and children who have never before experienced a pediatric speech therapy evaluation. There can be apprehension in not knowing what to expect when something is new. In reality, an evaluation for therapy is not intimidating or scary. This article aims to explain what a typical speech …

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Does My Child Need Speech Therapy?

Speech-Language Pathologists (SLPs) are specialists trained in the many areas of communication. It may surprise most people how broad the field is and the many benefits of speech therapy for children. SLPs provide specialized therapy for speech articulation, language, voice, fluency, feeding, and social/pragmatic skills. What do each of these mean exactly? Articulation and Phonology …

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