Our blog
Combining new ideas, cutting-edge research, and age-old wisdom to find answers to your questions about breathing better, sleeping better, eating better, talking better and feeling better.
Vocal Hygiene 101: Daily Habits for a Healthier Voice
“Vocal hygiene” is one of those phrases people hear after their voice starts failing—hoarseness, strain, fatigue, throat clearing—and then they’re handed
Vocal Nodules: What They Are and How Voice Therapy Helps
If your voice is consistently hoarse, your volume is limited, and your voice “gives out” before the day is over—especially if
Vocal Cord Dysfunction (VCD): Breathing/Throat Symptoms and Therapy
If you’ve had episodes of sudden breathing difficulty that feel like “air can’t get in,” especially with throat tightness, noisy breathing,
Muscle Tension Dysphonia: Symptoms, Causes, and Treatment
If your voice feels tight, effortful, or “stuck,” and you’re working harder than you think you should just to speak, you
Voice Therapy for Teachers: Preventing Vocal Strain and Fatigue
Teaching is a high-vocal-load profession. If you teach all day, you’re essentially doing endurance work with a small, sensitive tissue system—often
Hoarse Voice That Won’t Go Away: When to See an SLP
A hoarse voice for a day or two after cheering, a cold, or a long week of meetings is common. But
AAC Basics: When to Consider AAC and What It Means for Speech
If you’re reading this, you may be in one of these situations: Here’s the evidence-informed starting point: AAC is not “giving
Gestalt Language Processing: What Parents Need to Know
If your child communicates in “chunks” of language—scripts from shows, long phrases, or repeated lines that don’t look like typical first
Conversation Skills for Kids: Turn-Taking, Topic Maintenance, and Repair
When adults say a child is “bad at conversation,” they usually don’t mean vocabulary or grammar. They mean the child struggles
Pragmatic Language Skills: What They Are and How SLPs Treat Them
“Pragmatics” is the part of language most people never think about—until it causes daily problems. Pragmatic language skills are the rules