5 Tips to Stop Your Toddler’s Drooling

As parents there are certain behaviours that are acceptable and even expected when our children are young infants, but that are cause for concern if they continue as our children become toddlers and preschoolers. Drooling is one such behaviour. A drooling infant is...

Do Premature Babies Have Language or Speech Delays?

A baby in the hospital. According to the March of Dime, 8% of infants born each year in Canada are premature. The World Health Organization’s definition of premature is an infant born before 37 weeks gestation. Often infants who are born premature have delays in early...

Help! What is a Motor Speech Disorder?

A child with a speech-language pathologist Understanding Motor Speech Disorder If your child has a motor speech disorder you may notice that he/she can produce specific sounds correctly one time, and differently the next, for example, they can say the word...