As a South Bay speech therapist, I often get asked by parents in Hermosa Beach, Manhattan Beach, and Redondo Beach what they can do at home to encourage their children to become better communicators. I love this question! It shows that a parent is willing to put in the necessary effort to help their child improve their speech and language capabilities, and not just depend on their speech therapy sessions to “fix the problem.” A speech therapist might only see a child for an hour every week. … [Read more...]
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Lil’ Chit-Chat Launches Online Speech Therapy for Schools
A couple of months ago, we wrote in our blog about telepractice, or online speech therapy, and how we are using it to benefit our private speech therapy clients. Well, we have decided to expand our telepractice to include children who get their speech therapy at school, to help ensure that every child gets the speech therapy they need. Why Do Schools Need Speech Therapists? The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) require that public … [Read more...]
Should You Start or Continue Speech Therapy During the Holidays?
The holidays are fast approaching and we know it’s a busy time for everyone. Between family events, your children’s school events, holiday shopping, and everything else going on, you may be tempted to put a pause on your child’s speech therapy sessions. At Lil’ Chit-Chat, we’re here to encourage you to not take a break from speech therapy during this time. If you’re like most of our pediatric speech therapy clients in Hermosa Beach, Redondo Beach, and Torrance, your child likely just began … [Read more...]
Lil’ Chit-Chat Speech Therapy Puts Down Roots in Menifee Area
Lil’ Chit-Chat is a pediatric speech therapy clinic that was started in the South Bay area of Southern California. Our practice continues to grow and thrive in that area as we partner with families for speech and language development for their children. But since Lil’ Chit-Chat founder Sabrina Conway moved to Menifee, California a little more than a year ago and opened the clinic’s doors to children in the Menifee, Canyon Lake, Lake Elsinore, and Temecula areas for speech therapy, Lil’ Chit-Chat … [Read more...]
Lil’ Chit-Chat is Blogging!
Welcome to my first blog. My name is Sabrina Conway and I have been providing quality speech-language therapy to children and adults for over 10 years. My services assist with early intervention, feeding, apraxia of speech, articulation, language stuttering, auditory processing, autism, phonemic awareness, and social skills. Parent education is an important part of therapy to ensure parents are involved and in the know. I have training in PROMPT and Sensory Feeding Disorders. My … [Read more...]