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Stuttering: Parent’s Frequently Asked Questions

Stuttering: Parent’s Frequently Asked Questions

What is stuttering? Stuttering is when fluent speech becomes broken up by repetition of sounds, syllables, words; interruptions known as blocks; or prolongations of sounds. When does it begin? It is developmentally appropriate for stuttering to occur between 2-5 years...

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Visual Information Processing

Visual Information Processing

Does your child struggle with visual processing skills like tracking, eye teaming, and visual perception while reading? These are all developmental skills that children need in addition to seeing clearly. If these skills don’t develop normally, children can struggle...

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Promoting Development Through Failure

Promoting Development Through Failure

There are many ways to help your child along with their development. As parent’s, we set up tasks for our kids to perform, we control their environment, we provide assistance whenever we can to show our kids what to do and we believe that we are helping but the one...

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What is ABA?

What is ABA?

What is applied behavior analysis (ABA)? ABA is a type of therapy that provides evidence-based treatment to teach functional skills, decrease interfering or problem behaviors, increase socially appropriate behaviors, and increase overall quality of life. ABA therapy...

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Sleep and Speech/Language Development

Sleep and Speech/Language Development

Sleep and Speech/Language Development More and more research is being done on the importance of nighttime sleep and naps for speech and language development in kids. Professionals say that they have found links between deep sleep and children’s comprehension skills,...

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Using Kinetic Sand to Target Speech Skills

Using Kinetic Sand to Target Speech Skills

Who doesn’t love playing with Kinetic Sand?  It’s such a fun and engaging texture, but it can also be used to target several different speech and communication skills.  When I use it in therapy, I like to have small toys that we can bury in the sand. When playing with...

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