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Please help bring our children a voice… silence is not golden If you want to raise awareness about speech disorders–and the threat to IDEA–here’s a press release you can share with your local media. Find out the name of the health and education correspondents. Call them up to outline the situation. Then send the press [...]

From The LCP Solution book Dyspraxia/Apraxia Three-year-old Tanner, standing in the bathroom of his family’s New Jersey home picked up a pink comb, pointed to a yellow stripe that ran through it, and said, “Lellow.” It was the first ‘real’ word he had ever spoken and it came after just three weeks of supplementation. “I [...]

1. Send home a picture of the activity centers, and all the children and teachers, so the child can be more specific about what he or she did during the day. 2. Recognize the child’s strengths, not just his or her needs. 3. Start on teaching the child some signs to use in the classroom [...]

Families that have helped raise awareness to bring all our children a voice via TV! If you are a family that wishes to share your “late talker” story (either success story or frustration story) with the media either locally or nationally to help raise awareness please email us ! We hope to have pictures from [...]

Pictures from CN8′s Real Life half hour talker show titled “Not Just a Late Talker” featuring CHERAB Founder Lisa Geng and her son Tanner, VP CHERAB Cheryl Bennett Johnson MA SLS/Educational Consultant NJ State Teacher representative, CHERAB advisor Judy Flax CCC-SLP PhD Research Coordinator for the Santa Fe Institute Consortium and the Tallal Laboratory at [...]

Not all children with delayed speech are “little Einsteins” or garden variety “late bloomers.” Some have a speech-language disorder that will persist unless warning signs are recognized and intervention comes early. Includes a Guide for Parents.
Publish date: Nov 1, 2004
By: Marilyn C. Agin, MD

This is the age when your child’s speech begins to soar. Here are some simple strategies to boost his language skills. Introduction Few childhood milestones are as thrilling as your baby’s first word — an event lovingly recorded in baby books and immortalized in family lore. But a toddler’s acquisition of language can also be [...]

By Sandra Y. Lee, Photo by Matthew Rodgers Child Magazine – April 2003 If you suspect your child has difficulties with speech, speak up. The key to treating language disorders is early intervention. Perhaps no other milestone, besides walking, generates as much anticipation as a baby’s first words. “Yet when a child isn’t quite on [...]

Mark Your Calendars… Finalized brochures will be mailed 3/14/03 Apraxia in Children: Strategies for Physicians, Therapists & Families May 16 – 17, 2003 North Charleston , South Carolina Agenda Overview: May 16, 2003 8:30am – 8:30pm: Overview of Apraxia in Children Marilyn Agin, MD Brain Scans & Speech Delays TBA Speech Delays & the Right [...]

By Michelle Howe Star-Ledger Staff At Tanner Geng’s second birthday party, his parents, Lisa and Glenn, noticed there was something wrong with their son. “He wasn’t able to blow out the candles on his birthday cake and he couldn’t purse his lips to blow. It was a real wake-up call for us,” Lisa Geng said. [...]