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Adding Final Schwa

Q: What about kids who add a schwa to the end or middle of words? Do you have any ideas for that? I see the addition of a schwa as the child’s way of making a simpler speech motor pattern. According to...

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Working With Fussy or Uncooperative Toddlers

Q: My toddler-age clients sometimes fuss and cry, even scream. I know this is normal behavior for a little kid, but I am a young therapist with no children of my own yet, and I simply do not know how...

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Tongue-Protrusion in Toddlers

Q: I work in the Early Intervention setting and increasingly encounter late talking children (frequently boys) who prefer a frontal tongue posture. What’s the correction? In my experience, this problem...

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Getting Rid of Hypernasality

Q: My client produces some vowels with nasality. Do you know how to get rid of this problem? Old-fashioned articulation texts (pre-phonology) used to contain large sections, even whole chapters, on how...

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The Beginnings of “Oral Motor Techniques”

Q: I’m an undergrad student in my senior year, so my question is for a group project for which I have the history/origins of oral motor exercises. I read your article for the Oral Motor Institute where...

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Diphthongs and Glides in Core Vocabulary Words

This slide is from my class on improving intelligibility in apraxia, dysarthria, and low cognitive skills. Research has demonstrated that diphthongs and glides are learned very early and that children...

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Small Business Changes

Hello, I’m Shanti McGinley, Pam Marshalla’s daughter. I own and operate Marshalla Speech & Language, along with my husband, Cory. My mom passed away in June, 2015, having not published many of her...

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Newsletter Archives Now Available

Dear Subscribers, We have decided to republish Pam Marshalla’s presently-discontinued books and CDs, so that the entirety of her body of work may continue to be available for future generations of...

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Update on The Marshalla Guide

I wanted to take a moment to speak about Pam’s most recent unpublished book, The Marshalla Guide. Many of you have written in to ask me about when it will be ready for publication and I am very...

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Pam’s Final Q&A’s and A New Baby

In our most recent newsletter, I presented Pam’s final new Q&A’s which were posted to the blog last November and December. Pam’s ongoing writing and unique perspective will be dearly missed. Moving...

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