What type of exercise is required to build muscle? If you want to build muscle, resistance training is the type of exercise you would incorporate into your exercise regime. Resistance training refers to exercises that require your muscles to work against resistance and try to overcome it. Eventually, this is what enables your muscles to […]
Omega-3 fats
Fats are made up of carbon atoms. Unsaturated fats contain one or more double bonds between the carbon bonds while saturated fats do not contain double bonds. The word ‘poly’ indicates multiple double bonds. Unsaturated fats tend to be liquid at room temperature and saturated fats tend to be solid at room temperature. Unsaturated fats […]
What you need to know about fats
Articulation Therapy – Sounds in Words
In order to ensure that articulation therapy is successful, goals need to be targeted at the right level during every practice session. Throughout this blog, I will be discussing how you can work on target sounds at word level. Here are a few activities that are useful for targeting sounds at these levels. Sounds in […]
What you need to know about PCOS
What is PCOS? Do you find yourself putting on weight very quickly and are unable to loose weight quickly? Do you have irregular menstrual periods? These could be signs of PCOS. PCOS refers to polycystic ovary syndrome which is a complex hormonal condition. When diagnosing PCOS doctors use the Rotterdam criteria. A patient must fulfil […]
Articulation Therapy – Sounds in Syllables
In my last blog, I discussed one of the most common therapy hierarchies used when treating articulation disorders known as Van Riper’s model and how homework can be completed within the first stage of the hierarchy, which is working on sounds in isolation. Van Riper’s model is a framework used to structure speech therapy. AS […]