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March 18, 2014

Toddler a Picky Eater? The Development of Oral Motor Skills and Eating

During early childhood, there is an important progression of oral motor skills that a child gains in order to move on to each set of new foods. One of the most significant of these oral motor skills is tongue lateralization, or the movement of the tongue from side to side inside the mouth.
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March 13, 2014

Joint Attention: How do we teach what is hardest to learn?

An airplane flies overhead. Your toddler looks up into the sky with large eyes, looks quickly to you, then looks back toward the sky. It takes no words, no description, but language is not driving this interaction. Your child just used a method of communication known as joint attention.
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March 11, 2014

Applied Behavior Analysis and Early Intervention

The practice of ABA seeks to determine the “who, what, where, and why” of behaviors in order to develop methods to both teach new skills and replace problem behaviors with positive ones. ABA is used to teach a wide variety of skills such as play skills, communication, self-help skills, and social skills.
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March 6, 2014

Autism Spectrum Therapies: the PLAY Project

As therapists working with our families in their natural environments, we have the ability to choose from many different approaches to autism spectrum therapy as well as identify appropriate structures for interventions that can be implemented. One such approach is called “The PLAY Project” (Play and Language for the Autistic Youngster).
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February 28, 2014

Child Reactions: Sensory Issues or Behavior Driven?

Many parents and therapists alike can be perplexed by whether or not a child’s behaviors are resulting from sensory processing dysfunction or behavior driven. When living or working with infants or toddlers, this can be especially difficult until they are able to express their wants or needs by actions or words.
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February 26, 2014

Toddler Stuttering? What is Stuttering & How to Stop Stuttering

What is stuttering? Stuttering is a speech disorder that affects the normal flow of speech. People who stutter often exhibit part-word repetitions (d-d-d-dog), whole-word repetitions (dog dog dog), breaks in speech, interjections (um, er), and/or prolongations of sounds (DDDog).
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January 30, 2014
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Can a Child Diagnosed with Language Delay Learn Two Languages?

There are many advantages to being bilingual. The American Speech-Language Hearing Association suggests that some advantages may include: learning new words more easily, playing rhyming games, putting words into categories, increasing problem solving skills, and improving listening skills.
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December 19, 2013
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Communicating with a Deaf Child | Approaches for Language Learning

One of the first and most challenging decisions now that you have a child who is deaf or hard of hearing, is selecting HOW you will communicate with your child. The purpose of this article is to introduce the basic communication approaches. Let’s begin with some definitions and important distinctions.
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December 13, 2013
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Baby Standing? – The Development of Standing & Stepping (Gross Motor Skills)

Positive Support Reflex & Stepping Reflex: Enabling babies to stand and step Children’s gross motor skills develop over time, but sometimes infants appear to be born […]
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December 4, 2013
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Meeting the Needs of a Newborn Baby in the First Three Months

Modern day society presents new mothers and their newborns with many different challenges. Many women are trying to fulfill their role as mom, wife, professional, student, daughter, sister, etc in a fast paced world influenced by instant gratification, social media, and technology. I find that it is increasingly difficult for a new mom to care for and nurture her child and their unique bond the way nature intended.
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