Pierce Speech, Language, and Learning Center

06/28/2022

Everyone had a blast during our first session of speech, language, and early literacy skills summer enrichment camp last week! 🤩 We are SO lucky to work with such wonderful kids and parents. We have one more afternoon session this summer that still has a few open spots (July 12th-July 15th) - reach out if you're interested! You can learn more on our website:

Located in the heart of Berkshire County, Pierce Speech, Language and Learning Center is pleased to offer a summer enrichment camp focusing on speech, language, and early literacy skills. With small camp sizes and individualized instruction, this is the perfect opportunity to inspire your child's l

04/26/2022

📣 🎉 Exciting news!! This summer we're hosting a speech, language, and early literacy enrichment camp for children of all abilities, ages 4-7! Check out our website at www.piercespeech.com/summerenrichment for more information - we'd love for you to join us!

Located in the heart of Berkshire County, Pierce Speech, Language and Learning Center is pleased to offer a summer enrichment camp focusing on speech, language, and early literacy skills. With small camp sizes and individualized instruction, this is the perfect opportunity to inspire your child's l

12/29/2021

Top 5 Reasons to Give AAC a Try

Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) is an incredibly powerful tool for communicators across all ages - it allows persons with communication disorders to use low to high tech tools to express their wants, needs, and thoughts. Despite its potential power, many caregivers, educators, and

11/20/2021

Total Communication: A flexible approach to communicating

So what IS total communication, and who is it important for? Read on to learn more about the many ways that we ALL communicate, and how we can harness different modalities to enable everyone to share their wants, needs, emotions, and thoughts, especially people with communication challenges like Au

03/20/2021

Text-to-Speech and Dictation: Built-in support tools you didn’t even know were there

Today’s world of technology is so full of useful tricks and tools that it’s hard to keep up. Text-to-speech, speech-to-text, dictation, optical character recognition – how to keep them all straight? And what even are they anyway?! This blog answers those questions and illuminates a few of my f...

01/03/2021

5 Clinician-approved tips for swallowing safely

Dysphagia, otherwise known as disordered swallowing, can impact people who have had a stroke, a traumatic brain injury, other neurological or neuromuscular disorders like Parkinson’s or Multiple Sclerosis, or just muscle weakness. Read on to learn a few tips for safe eating!

12/15/2020

5 tips for video chatting in a group setting

Zoom, Google Meet, WebEx, GoToMeeting, FaceTime… these video conference platforms have become common household words, especially over the past year of distance communication. However, for some people with communication disorders, video chatting can be incredibly challenging. Read on to learn a few...

11/13/2020

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10/25/2020

Tips and tools for using teletherapy in your practice

Are you a fellow clinician looking for some quick tips and tricks for teletherapy? Well look no further! Check out my recent blog post on some of my favorite features and tools for carrying over all of the amazing therapy skills and materials we already have and applying them to teletherapy.

09/20/2020

Channeling Tech for Good: A guide to helping your child set technology boundaries for life

In today’s world, technology surrounds us at all times - as I sit writing this blog and as you sit reading it, we are entrenched in tech - for better or for worse. With education and work shifting to more and more remote opportunities, we as adults need to help guide our children in their use of t...

09/06/2020

8 Aphasia Misconceptions: Debunking the Myths

Check out this blog covering several debunked assumptions about aphasia tied to incidence, intelligence, presentation, therapy timelines, and more. These myths are just not true!

08/30/2020

Early Literacy At Home: How parents can help

Especially in these strange times of educational uncertainty due to COVID-19, many parents wonder what they can do at home to help their child learn to read. Check out this blog post to learn about a few simple, fun activities you can do at home to help promote your child’s early literacy skills!