The Era Banner
Sunday July 7, 2002
Lisa Queen

When Mark Cardinali first became a patient of Newmarket's Family Speech Clinic last October, he had difficulty pronouncing simple words.
Hardly surprising, given the then three-year-old's hearing loss, which appeared to have been rectified when tiny tubes were surgically implanted in his ears to help them drain properly.
At the time, Mark's mom said she hoped he would be able to articulate one word properly by Christmas.
"We started in October and I thought that if he could say one word clearly, it would be such a huge Christmas gift for us," Jeanine Cardinali said.
(click here to read the full article)

The Era Banner
Sunday May 2, 2004

A speech and language problem may include; mis-articulation of sounds, late development of words, difficulty communicating in social situations, stuttering, and problems expressing their thoughts. Intervention to address these issues can be provided in many different ways. The Family Speech Clinic is a private speech-language pathology service that offers individual and group therapy as well as a summer camp. Camp Inukshuk is a unique summer program that was designed three years ago by Beth Cranmer-Smith, Speech-Language Pathologist and Tammy Abbott, Communicative Disorders Assistant. It provides children between the ages of 3 and 8 with the opportunity to practice their communication skills in a fun and exciting environment.
(click here to read the full article)