by speakeasymin | Dec 18, 2025 | News, Speech Therapy
Recent Medicaid funding changes are putting pressure on speech-language pathologists, especially in North Carolina. After the federal One Big Beautiful Bill Act shifted more Medicaid costs to states, North Carolina introduced reimbursement cuts of 3%–10% despite...
by speakeasymin | Nov 17, 2025 | News, Occupational Therapy
Some positive healthcare news! Congress just revived Medicare’s telehealth waivers—after letting them lapse during a messy spending fight and 42-day shutdown—so occupational therapy can keep happening virtually through January 31, 2026, with retroactive reimbursement...
by speakeasymin | Nov 6, 2025 | News, Speech Therapy
Stanford researchers are exploring whether AI could help fill the huge gap in speech therapy services for kids, since there aren’t nearly enough speech-language pathologists to meet the need. Right now, the big-name language models — even advanced ones like GPT-4 and...
by speakeasymin | Oct 21, 2025 | News, Speech Therapy
October 22 is International Stuttering Awareness Day. This is a great opportunity to focus public attention on a complex disorder that touches 70 million people around the world and more than 3 million in the U.S. alone. In this fantastic article, The Stuttering...
by speakeasymin | Oct 16, 2025 | News, Physical Therapy
October is National Physical Therapy Month! 🎉 This year, APTA (American Physical Therapy Association) is spotlighting how physical therapy helps us stay strong, mobile, and well across every stage of life. Their “PT For Future Me” campaign celebrates the power of...
by speakeasymin | Sep 26, 2025 | News, Speech Therapy
Primary progressive aphasia (PPA) slowly erodes language skills, and while speech therapy has been the go-to option, researchers at the University of Arizona found that adding a gentle brain zap—called transcranial direct current stimulation—gives therapy a serious...
