It is important to know that all behaviors happen for a reason or purpose. These reasons are known as functions. These functions maintain the behavior. When dealing with a behavior, the behavior itself is not as important as the function of the behavior. The four...
Hello! My name is Sara and I am an OT at TEAM 4 Kids Pediatric Therapy. Crawling is a skill that usually develops between 6-10 months. I have been asked why crawling is important by parents and frequently explain why skipping the crawling milestone and going straight...
Finding time to work on your child’s speech homework at home can be difficult, especially when life gets busy. It may seem like there is not enough time in the day to finish whatever chores you have around the house, on top of practicing your child’s speech goals....
While bottle feeding, most parents traditionally cradle their infant in their arms. However, sometimes babies are uncoordinated and struggle to successfully put together all the steps of feeding from a bottle. If this is the case with your baby, there is another...
Remember that good ol' game that would make your heart race every time you noticed five items in a row? Bingo can be a great way to implement gross motor activities and tasks with your kiddos while keeping them engaged and excited. All you’ll need is a fun, exciting...
Positive reinforcement is the use of social praise, tangible rewards and natural consequences to increase behaviors that you want to see in your child. Positive language is an important part of your child’s learning about what is appropriate behavior and what is not....
Learning letters can be fun. Writing can be fun. Some kids love it. Some kids have been ridiculed and shamed in front of their classmates for their handwriting to the point that the joy and fascination of letters has dissipated. Helping them rediscover the joy of...
As a parent, we sit with our baby and we may talk to them with our advanced language only to hear the cute babbling back. Which is something we expect from babies, right? However, something we may not expect is the speech and language development delay that may occur...
Feeding Strategies for Sensory Sensitive Eaters Feeding is a complex task that requires every sense we use for every meal. We often don’t realize we are using all of our senses with this ordinary task. Let’s take pizza as an example. We often comment on the smell of a...
Movement Breaks for Your Kiddos Movement breaks are so important for kids of all ages as it helps with general development in all areas. Many kiddos, especially nowadays, have the tendency of sitting around on some sort of electronics all day - so why not use those...
