During the summertime, parents get a well-deserved break from running their kids from place to place. While your kids are in school, your life may follow a set routine making it easy to get each task completed by the end of the day. Between...
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A lot of people often ask what are some ways to teach children verbs and actions. It is important to know that children learn to receptively identify verbs and understand them visually before they will start to label them. One way to teach this...
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Your child has difficulty pronouncing certain sounds. How do you find the balance as a parent of correcting them without it becoming too much? Should you just let it go? How much is too much? All of these are great questions to ask yourself if...
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Being a parent of a child with Autism can be overwhelming and one of the biggest fears many parents have is “My child just can’t learn xyz.” Though children with Autism learn differently, it is important to understand this one thing: Autism does...
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Social media provides us with access to an abundance of great information quickly. As a speech-language pathologist and a mother, I use social media to assist me with new and exciting ideas for activities and mealtimes. Here are just a few...
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This is a fun app that can help with fine motor coordination and visual motor coordination, as well as introducing scissor skills. The app’s goal is to operate virtual scissors using the children’s thumb and index finger to snip...
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AAC stands for alternative and augmentative communication. There are many types of AAC systems that your speech-language pathologist might recommend. Some types of AAC will be “low tech,” which can range from using manual signs to using picture...
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Children who have CAS have difficulty with production in saying sounds, syllables or words. Muscle weakness or paralysis does not cause CAS, it is caused when the brain doesn’t connect well with body parts like lips, jaw or tongue which are...
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