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10 Common Mistakes People Make During Conversation

Conversation is an art, and most of what we need to do it right can be learned.

Why humans struggled to make 'f' and 'v' sounds until farming came along

Love to drop F-bombs? Thank the shift to agriculture.

6 Easy Habits That Will Make You Better in Conversations

Take your thoughts and bring them to the outside world.

10 of the Best (and 5 of the Worst) Hospitals

Going to a great hospital can make all the difference when you need care. This list makes it easy to see how your local hospital stacks up.

Speech Therapy: Does Your Child Need Help?

Speech-language pathologists can help kids who struggle to read

Classroom teachers may not employ the strategies that can help students master complex written language, according to speech-language pathology researchers at University of the Pacific.

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

​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.

Does my child need speech therapy?

The first three years of a child’s life are crucial to language development. Before your child begins to talk, they absorb language around them and pick up the meaning of words and phrases. Research has shown that babies begin to recognize their mother’s voice even before they are born.

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.

5 Steps to Understanding Your Speech Therapy Benefits

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

What is physical, occupational and speech therapy?

What Is an Advance Directive for Health Care?

Your estate plan should include advance directives for health care. You execute these documents to account for the possibility of incapacity late in life.

What Drives Innovation in Health Care?

Innovation is in vogue in many industries including health care. But what exactly is innovation? That is the issue hospitals and academic medical centers are g…

Disease Care or Health Care?

Chiropractors provide health care. They concern themselves with interference to the system of the body that controls all functions—the nerve system. Vertebral subluxations cause interference to t…

Housing is Health Care—and Health Care Can Build Housing

Traditionally, the housing and health care industries have viewed one another as distinct. This distinction has prohibited us from seeing our broader intersections with economic, social and racial equity—and the solutions.

What Is Cost in Health Care?

Although cost is a common topic in health care, it is not commonly understood. As one man’s trash is another man’s treasure, similarly, in health care, one man’s cost is …

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.

Why is collaboration missing in health care?

Collaboration by health care professionals is an essential element.

Is There a Right to Health Care?

Saying people have a right to health care is based on a conceptual confusion.