New Beginnings Coaching & Therapy

How to Contour Your Face Shape

All contouring techniques are not created equal. Any makeup artist will tell you that your face shape will make a big difference in determining what type of shading and highligh...

3 Tips for Finding the Right Physical Therapist

Choosing the right physical therapist to treat you in your area can sometimes be tricky. Depending on where you live you may have many choices or not enough. In order to help you down the path of choosing the right one for you, here are three tips to help get you started. The first step…

10 Ways to Pay for Assisted Living

Are you wondering how to pay for assisted living? Read our tips on eight common ways that families pay for assisted living care.

What’s the difference between physical, occupational or speech therapy?

What is physical, occupational and speech therapy?

​How can a speech-language pathologist help?

Speech-language pathologists help people with communication disorders make connections and more clearly experience the world around them.

Speech Therapy: Does Your Child Need Help?

4 Ways to Jumpstart Speech Therapy at Home

New Years is a great time to look at your child's progress in speech therapy and do what you can to keep things moving along well.

5 Signs You're Child May Need Speech Therapy

Being a parent of many children, I have experienced a child that needed speech therapy in his younger years

Speech Therapy Ideas for Preschoolers

Photo by Flickr One of the joys of having a blog is that I hear from people literally all around the world. Some are parents seeking advice for their children who have speech and language delays, s…

“Why” Questions for Speech Therapy

Questions are the basis of many interactions that occur on a daily basis. By developing the ability to understand, answer, and ask questions, receptive, expressive, and pragmatic language skills needed to support later developing skills.

“What” Questions for Speech Therapy

Questions are the basis of many interactions that occur on a daily basis. By developing the ability to understand, answer, and ask questions, receptive, expressive, and pragmatic language skills needed to support later developing skills.

Do You Give Standing Ovations to Your Speech Therapy Students?

One way that I help to create a positive atmosphere in my speech therapy room is through standing ovations. When one of my students does something that blows my mind (for example, finally getting a…

When to Start Speech Therapy for Children with Down Syndrome

I am asked frequently, “When should my child start speech therapy?” This is a great question! Usually parents are asking, “Is my child old enough to improve how they sound when th…

How Do Children With Autism Benefit From Speech Therapy?

Speech therapy involves a broad range of treatments for various communication disorders. These can involve something as simple a lisp or as complex as an inability to und...

Can Speech Therapy Help Treat Sleep Apnea?

Sleep apnea, a severe sleep problem, is the inability to breathe properly while sleeping.

4 Facts You May Not Have Known About Speech Therapy

Speech therapy is a service that is easy to take for granted, but which is relevant in many settings. Speech is one of the basic things that a human being needs to use in order to have a better quality of life, and to communicate with each other with ease. Having a problem with speech can have a huge impact on one’s day to day life, including their ability to work. Fortunately, the field of speech therapy is rapidly expanding, and this means…

Can Play-Doh Be Used for Speech Therapy?

You can’t argue that Play-Doh is a lot of fun. It’s also inexpensive – and rarely does a child resist grabbing, rolling and shaping it.

Wishing Wells in Speech Therapy Help to Build Rapport

Anytime I walk by a large body of water, I get the sudden urge to make a wish and toss a penny into it. Don’t you? I believe that wishes are something extremely special and I think that we al…

5 Steps to Understanding Your Speech Therapy Benefits

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