Tag: speech language therapist

Talk, Don’t Text

By Rachael Geile on March 17, 2026Leave a comment

Talk, Don’t Text: Helping Kids Build Pragmatic Language Skills Screen time is hard to limit, even with “educational” apps. However, too much can impact kids’ communication development. Recent research links heavy screen use to language, cognitive, and social-emotional delays, as well as sleep and social issues (Muppalla et al., 2023). That’s where real-world interactions—and sometimes, […]

Speech Therapy

Speech-Language Pathologists: A Key Piece of the Airway Puzzle

By Rachael Geile on March 2, 2026Leave a comment

Speech-Language Pathologists: A Key Piece of the Airway Puzzle Airway health is about more than breathing; it’s about how the airway functions during speech, swallowing, sleep, and daily life. Speech-language pathologists (SLPs) play a vital role in identifying and treating the functional patterns that directly impact airway health across the lifespan. PTs trained in TMD […]

Speech Therapy, TMJ