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.

Apps Targeting Language for Middle Schoolers

2012-04-14T15:43:00+00:00

Far fewer middle school students need our services as compared to the number of preschool and elementary aged children who do. Those who still need therapy present with the unique challenges. After all, they still need our services. Finding apps for our middle school population can be challenging.  I have found a few apps that [...]

Apps Targeting Language for Middle Schoolers2012-04-14T15:43:00+00:00

Out of Africa and back in the US

2012-04-04T13:26:00+00:00

I write this with mush-brain from jet lag, long hours on a plane, and readjusting to being back. I have just returned from Africa---a trip of a lifetime. I visited Cape Town, Victoria Falls, and went on a safari in the greater Kruger Park National Park area. The food, accommodations, people, places we visited and [...]

Out of Africa and back in the US2012-04-04T13:26:00+00:00

Starting Point Apps in Language Therapy

2017-12-10T19:35:38+00:00

I downloaded nine sing-a-long apps because I liked their graphics and cheerful animation. I thought that they might have a use for therapy so I hung onto them.  I went back to look at them again for this post and saw that each has a different theme. It occurred to me that each app offers [...]

Starting Point Apps in Language Therapy2017-12-10T19:35:38+00:00

These are some of the reasons that I chose to work…

2012-03-09T21:13:00+00:00

These are some of the reasons that I chose to work with a local team. Although I can't say that I've learned that much about computer coding and programming, my team has learned A LOT about speech sound production. I did have to do a little quick-fix speech therapy when we were recording the voices [...]

These are some of the reasons that I chose to work…2012-03-09T21:13:00+00:00

App Development Update

2017-12-10T19:35:38+00:00

I met with the management team last week. I called the meeting because I was becoming increasingly frustrated with the pace of the project. To me, this project seemed to be moving at a snail's pace. In the past five months, the project had advanced to the drawing of only four characters and the team [...]

App Development Update2017-12-10T19:35:38+00:00

Six More Language Adaptable Apps

2017-12-10T19:35:38+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 Apps2017-12-10T19:35:38+00:00

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