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Midwestern University is proud to announce that the Speech-Language Pathology team now offers pediatric diagnostic and therapeutic swallowing services for children from birth to 8 years.

Snacks can play an important role in helping us to get the nutrients and energy we need, while also curbing urges to overeat at mealtime.

Thoughts to help you face the challenges of being a caregiver for a loved one.

If the holiday season makes you feel stuck between joy and loss know you are not alone. Here are some tips on dealing with loss during the holidays.

It’s important to take care of any missed healthcare visits and to make sure we all receive our flu shots, Covid vaccines/boosters, and any other age-appropriate immunizations or boosters.

As people feel anxious, depressed, overwhelmed, or isolated due to the COVID-19 pandemic, it is important to keep your mental health a priority.

Learning to identify and appropriately express emotions in response to events is one of the many tasks of child development. Learn more about what can be done to help your child's emotional development.

Many elderly people fall because they lose their balance. Learn how this happens and steps that can be taken to help prevent the higher risk of falling as we get older.

Understand the importance of physical activity and work setup while at home.

Healthy eyes are a critical component to a child’s development. Vision is a fundamental sense that may affect visual and brain development, learning and school performance, communication, and visual processing abilities.

Tips to prevent rotator cuff injuries.

Quality sunglasses are vital in protecting the eyes against the sun’s harmful UV rays.

Tips for communicating with someone who has aphasia.

A little anxiety in your life is normal, especially in uncertain times like those we in which we have been living. However, when anxiety starts to interfere with your sleep, mood, relationships, and parenting, it may be time to take steps to address it.

As children develop language skills between two and five years of age, they might experience a period of normal disfluency.