Written by Keely Hutton, M.S.Ed., Reg. CALSPO, Bright Spot Speech-Language Pathologist Raise your hand if you speak more than one language! Raise your hand i...

For mother's day this year, I know so many mothers out there would love nothing more than to hear their child say "I love you" for the first time. Whether yo...

So often parents/caregivers fall into the trap of believing that they need to have more toys or specific toys to build language, while the truth is that the ...

Often parents come to their first speech therapy sessions with the idea that they will have to put in a lot of work to help their child's language grow. I am...

Bottles, sippy cups, pacifiers, and thumb sucking are quite common during children's early years of development, yet many parents are unaware of potential ri...

Written by Keely Hutton, M.S.Ed., Reg. CASLPO, Bright Spot Speech-Language Pathologist When we tell people we are speech-language pathologists, the most comm...

Written by Keely Hutton, M.S.Ed., Reg. CASLPO, Bright Spot Speech-Language Pathologist If you read our last blog post, you learned a bit about what stutterin...

Thanks to everyone that tuned in to my "Live at Lunch" series today! Today we talked about how speech sounds develop, starting with sounds in the front of yo...

Why SLPs think reading is so important.

Welcome to Teletherapy at Bright Spot! For those of you who haven’t yet heard, the Bright Spot Therapy Services office has been closed for almost two weeks d...

Before becoming a speech-language pathologist, there was nothing I wanted to do more in my life! Seriously... becoming an SLP was my birthday candle wish, my...

Everyone has heard of the importance of brushing your teeth to prevent cavities, or stretching before exercising to prevent injuries, but have you heard of c...

When I first decided I wanted to delve into private practice, I knew I wanted Bright Spot to offer Occupational Therapy Services. I see great value in the pr...

Today was a long and full day of therapy and it was also one of my best and most memorable therapy days! I was seeing several kids today and unfortunately ha...

1. Bedtime is the best time to read books Incorporating shared book reading into your child's bedtime routine is wonderful, but don't limit yourself to one t...

If you clicked on this blog hoping to hear scientific evidence that eating pizza will improve your child's language skills, I am so sorry to disappoint you! ...

Yesterday I had the opportunity to sit down with Natisha McLeod, owner of Beautiful Noise Music School in Timmins. Natisha offers Kindermusik classes to chil...

Last year, as a new mommy, I was looking for fun classes for my music loving daughter. We decided to register for Kindermusik. As I was participating in the ...

It's that wonderful time of year again! Colours are changing, everything is pumpkin-spiced, and we get to wear sweaters (unless you are in Timmins where the ...

Talk Like a Pirate Day is a great opportunity to "sneak" in speech and language goals into fun pirate themed activities. There is no better day than Pirate D...