08/11/10
Summer Intensive Learning Programs - brain train not brain drain!
 
Teachers and therapists have long known that the lazy summer break often poses a threat to those hard-earned learning gains made by students during the previous year. With prolonged relaxation of mental discipline and practice, thinking skills and...

10/06/10
After A Long Silence, A Speech Pathologist Speaks. An overdue update from Marilyn Black of Express Creative Speech Therapy
 
It’s been a significant month here at Express Creative Speech Therapy. We’ve welcomed into our lives a new puppy, in an effort to help our nearly five-year-old lab Vanya over his grief. His happy existence suffered a severe blow when his...

10/06/10
For Worried Parents. Concern for the future of their loved ones is a universal and understandable condition for parents of children with developmental challenges. Speech-language pathologist Marilyn Black offers some reassuring words.
 
It happened again this morning. I was at pains to explain to a mother, a particularly compassionate and understanding person, the exact nature of her little boy’s difficulties with language comprehension. Suddenly, her composure drooped, and I...

08/08/09
THERAPY DOG in Speech Therapy Sessions
 
Meet Vanya, a therapy dog and an accredited member of the Lort Smith Pets As Loving Support (PALS) program. Vanya is a valued contributor in my speech therapy sessions. My belief in pets as therapy has produced remarkable results in children and...

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New thinking all the talk on dyslexia - read The Age article

Marilyn Black Speech Pathologist
Speech pathologist Marilyn Black encourages the use of computer programs to help children with dyslexia

Anna & Vanya
Anna, pictured with therapy dog, Vanya, has benefited from one to one speech language lessons with Marilyn.


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Meet Pink, our new therapy pup, having a play with Charlie 

Pink & Charlie
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“I was here first, ok?” Watch Pink on video

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VANYA,  A THERAPY DOG,  AT WORK IN SPEECH THERAPY LESSONS, IN HOSPITALS & NURSING HOMES
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Posted on Monday, October 2nd, 2006 at 6:41 pm
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