About Avivit Ben-Aharon

Founder & Clinical Director at Great Speech Inc. | Providing Innovative Alternatives to Speech Pathology Services

Entries by Avivit Ben-Aharon

7 Signs Your Child Might Have an Executive Functioning Disorder

Over 4.6 million school-aged children have been diagnosed with some kind of a learning disability. But when your child is one of those millions, it can feel like your world has turned completely upside-down. Perhaps you know that something isn’t quite right with your child’s learning and processing abilities, but you’re [...]

Your Coronavirus Educational Activity Toolbox: 10 Tips to Help Parents Weather School Closing

School is out. But it’s not a snow day nor a vacation week.  You may be tempted to dump your daily routine and transition to a vacation mentality.  But this coronavirus hiatus from school and work has no definite end date, a cause for anxiety. It’s also an opportunity.  While our older children [...]

The Top 3 Benefits of Online Speech Therapy During the Coronavirus Outbreak and Flu Season

Coronavirus has been officially declared a pandemic. Schools are closed in some parts of the country. Businesses and healthcare offices may be next. Some consumers are worried they will not be able to access the speech therapy services they need- for themselves or for their family members and they are researching online speech therapy alternatives [...]

Academic Success

Academic Success Language skills are essential for learning How Are Language Skills And Academic Success Related? Language is essential to every aspect and interaction in our lives. We use language to inform people of what we feel, desire, question and understand about the world around us. Language is the foundation of communication and comes in [...]

Academic Success

Academic Success Language skills are essential for learning How Are Language Skills And Academic Success Related? Language is essential to every aspect and interaction in our lives. We use language to inform people of what we feel, desire, question and understand about the world around us. Language is the foundation of communication and comes in [...]

Voice Therapy

Voice Therapy If you have the words, we can help you find your voice. What Is A Voice Disorder? According to the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association | ASHA  “A Voice Disorder occurs when voice quality, pitch, and loudness differ or are inappropriate for an individual’s age, gender, cultural background, or geographic location.” Another term used to [...]

Gr8 Lessons Learned from Hurricane Irma

Hurricane Irma had a powerful impact. Thankfully South Florida was not hit with a Category Five storm as expected. And we are grateful. Not just for the unexpected detour but also for the valuable lessons learned about caring, comfort and TeleSpeech. Let’s start with caring. Caring and compassion were rampant before, during and after [...]

Changing Voices: Will Yours Change in 2017?

The inaugural parade has had the same voice since Eisenhower. This year it’s changing. Inauguration Day will sound different this year without Charlie Brotman behind the microphone at America’s biggest political extravaganza. The octogenarian has been the official announcer at every inauguration since President Dwight D. Eisenhower’s second term in 1956. That [...]

The Latest Scholarship News for Florida Special Needs Kids

Good news for Florida residents! Your child may be eligible for the Gardiner Scholarship. Also known as the PLSA, Personal Learning Scholarship Account, this NEW financial program is designed to better meet the individual educational and therapeutic needs of Florida children with disabilities, ages 3-22 (or 12th grade.) If your child qualifies for the PLSA, [...]

Executive Function

Executive Function Executive Function Is Our Organizational Epicenter What Is Executive Function Disorder? Executive Function skills impact both spoken and written language.  These skills are the control center which allow us to analyze a task, plan for it, organize the steps and then execute the task successfully. While these skills are critical to academic success, [...]

Executive Function

Executive Function Executive Function Is Our Organizational Epicenter What Is Executive Function Disorder? Executive Function skills impact both spoken and written language.  These skills are the control center which allow us to analyze a task, plan for it, organize the steps and then execute the task successfully. While these skills are critical to academic success, [...]

Executive Function

Executive Function Executive Function Is Our Organizational Epicenter What Is Executive Function Disorder? Executive Function skills impact both spoken and written language.  These skills are the control center which allow us to analyze a task, plan for it, organize the steps and then execute the task successfully. While these skills are critical to academic success, [...]