About Mirla G. Raz

I am an Arizona licensed speech pathologist and am certified by the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association. I have been in private practice for over 30 years working extensively with children who have speech and language problems. I received my Master’s degree from Seton Hall University in New Jersey. After graduation, I decided that I need sun and warmth and so headed south to work for the Volusia County Schools in Daytona Beach Florida. The next year I moved to California where I was offered a job working for the Los Angeles Unified School District in the severe oral language handicapped program. My next move was to UCLA where I worked in the department of Clinical Linguistics at the Neuropsychiatric Institute. In 1981, I moved to Arizona where I went into private practice. It gives me tremendous satisfaction to know that I have helped hundreds of children gain normal speech and language skills.

Preschool Stuttering Ebook

2015-12-26T05:19:25+00:00

I am hoping to have the Preschool Stuttering: What Parent's Can Do ebook uploaded next week. I am hoping to make it available in all English speaking countries. It will be available at Amazon. Stay tuned for more information.

Preschool Stuttering Ebook2015-12-26T05:19:25+00:00

Verb Fun

2017-12-10T19:35:31+00:00

Before I review Fun with Verbs and Sentences I would like to update you on Preschool Stuttering: What Parents Can Do.  It is now with the typesetter. I have done quite a bit of revising so hopefully the most recent is the last. Fun with Verbs and Sentences: by Patti Hamaguchi. When I review apps, [...]

Verb Fun2017-12-10T19:35:31+00:00

Preschool Stuttering: What Parents Can Do

2017-12-10T19:35:31+00:00

  I know that I have been a bit lax in my app reviews lately. The reason is that I am getting ready to publish my fourth Help Me Talk Right book, Preschool Stuttering: What Parents Can Do. It is written and with the typesetter. Once it is typeset, it will be off to the [...]

Preschool Stuttering: What Parents Can Do2017-12-10T19:35:31+00:00

Laureate First Words App

2017-12-10T19:35:31+00:00

Laureate First Words: A couple of years back I worked with a seven-year-old autistic nonverbal child. His receptive skills were limited to being able to point to a few common items consistently. I pulled out all the stops trying to move this child forward. Unfortunately, I was unsuccessful in making an small difference in his [...]

Laureate First Words App2017-12-10T19:35:31+00:00

Announcement: A New Help Me Talk Right book coming soon

2015-12-26T05:19:26+00:00

I am excited to announce the upcoming publication of my fourth Help Me Talk Right book: Preschool Stuttering: What Parents Can Do. I have set a target of date of November for the publication. It will be available in paperback and electronically. The book will be a great resource for parents. Parents will understand what [...]

Announcement: A New Help Me Talk Right book coming soon2015-12-26T05:19:26+00:00

Speech Therapy for Apraxia

2017-12-10T19:35:31+00:00

                             Speech Therapy for Apraxia: In order for me to recommend a therapy app, I need to feel that it can simplify the life of the therapist and will be a fun learning experience for children. Unfortunately, Speech Therapy for Apraxia fulfills neither of these requirements. This app was developed by Blue Whale Apps [...]

Speech Therapy for Apraxia2017-12-10T19:35:31+00:00

Final App Development Update

2017-12-10T19:35:31+00:00

Last August I posted on my debacle with the first app developer I hired. Unfortunately, the news on the second guy I hired is equally dire. Last May, I contacted a developer whose app I had downloaded and liked. It had animation, was interactive and fun. We Skyped and got to know each other a [...]

Final App Development Update2017-12-10T19:35:31+00:00

Speech FlipBook

2017-12-10T19:35:31+00:00

Speech FlipBook: The developers of this app state, "This is a tool rather than a therapy program..." This is an important warning. That is because this is an app that focuses on the production of sounds. I have lost count of the number of times I have negatively reviewed apps because the developer has delved [...]

Speech FlipBook2017-12-10T19:35:31+00:00

Impressive Language Apps

2017-12-10T19:35:31+00:00

Between the Lines Levels 1 and 2: Patti Hamaguchi has succeeded again in raising the bar for excellence in apps. These apps give us a good reason to swap our paper materials for the latest in technology.Each Between the Lines app targets listening skills, language comprehension and reasoning skills (inferences, the understanding of idioms and [...]

Impressive Language Apps2017-12-10T19:35:31+00:00

Six More Language Adaptable Apps

2017-12-10T19:35:31+00:00

Where Am I?: There are vocabulary apps that focus strictly on vocabulary and then there are these apps that go an extra step. Where Am I apps show targeted vocabulary and then place each in its appropriate scene on the following screen. Thus, one can talk about where the object is, what it is doing, [...]

Six More Language Adaptable Apps2017-12-10T19:35:31+00:00

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