Ever have a morning when your child refuses to get dressed? Or when your child decides they don't want to sit in their carseat and you ar...

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

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 fi...

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

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...

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

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

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 ...

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

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 fo...

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

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

When I first decided I wanted to delve into private practice, I knew I wanted Bright Spot to offer Occupational Therapy Services. I see g...

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 ...

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

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...

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

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 p...

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