The Holiday Conundrum: Navigating Your Child's Needs and Dealing With Unsolicited Advice.
Use these tips to get through the holiday season. Whether it's dealing with unsolicited advice from family or how to provide the supports that your child needs to stay calm and navigate through the changes in routine. Be prepared, be ready to adapt and be easy on yourself!
Why " They'll eat when they're hungry" Doesn't Work With Every Child.
Why one size doesn't fit all when it comes to sensory feeding or feeding skills.
Halloween Sensory Exploration Table
A few economical ideas to create a sensory exploration table
If Your Child is Non-Verbal or Just Beginning to Verbalize, Try These This Halloween.
A few tips from a pediatric SLP on helping your special needs child participate in Halloween activities
Use a Baby Doll and Pretend Play to Work on Speech,Feeding and Social Skills
Tips from an SLP on using pretend play to work on speech, language, feeding, and social skills
Learn How to Easily Make a Communication Book with a PowerPoint.
This posts walks you through creating a communication notebook for your child. This notebook will help bridge the gap between non-verbal and verbal communication as your child continues to work on speech, language and communication. It can also be used for a child who is not responding to cues and prompts to verbalize, but needs a reliable method of communication across environments that they are ready for.
Feeding Therapy Dos and Don'ts
Dos and Don'ts of Feeding therapy
How Your Pet Can Help Your Child Communicate
A short article on how pets can improve social interactions, communication skills and feeding.
3 Tips to Help Your Child Focus
Some kids need visuals to understand what you expect of them. It is the reason why children's books have more pages with illustrations than anything you read in that advanced russian literature course you took and miraculously passed in undergrad. Pictures make the spoken word more concrete. Visual countdowns, first/then boards and schedules can help your child focus, and make sense of all the directives and expectations that are placed on them. These are tools to not only he
Four Visual Aids to Manage Your Child's Behaviors and Increase Attention Span
We've all been there- you are trying to complete a fun activity with your child or student and you can't seem to get them sit still for long enough to finish pasting one petal on a flower. You start off with a kind, sweet voice and within 5 minutes you're ready to pull hair out and yell" ENOUGH!! SIT DOWN AND JUST LISTEN TO MEEEEEEEEE!!" What if I told you it doesn't have to get to that point. You can get through the day without having a major meltdown. It simply requires so
