20 June 2024
Tips to Help your Child’s Speech and Language Skills over the Holiday Break
During the school semester, your child gets plenty of support with their speech and language skills. However, once the winter break starts, consistent practice can lessen. Especially for students who have trouble with their speech and language skills, it’s important to continue practicing these skills even when they do not have speech therapy sessions. Practicing […]
20 June 2024
How to Promote Resilience in Kids
Everyone is capable of working through challenges and coping with stress, even children. Resilience is a person’s ability to recover from stress, adversity, failure, and challenges. Resilience isn’t something people have or don’t have. This is a skill that people can develop as they grow. Resilient people are more likely to take healthy risks because […]
20 June 2024
4 Ways to Work on Your Child’s Occupational Therapy Skills During The Holiday Break
Occupational therapy is designed to help people overcome setbacks related to poor motor skills. These setbacks may make it difficult for children to perform well in school, and occupational therapy can work on skills children need, such as writing and typing or tying their shoes. Occupational therapy focuses on fine and gross motor skills and […]
20 June 2024
Top 5 Reasons Children Need Therapy
It’s not uncommon for children and teens to have problems that affect how they feel, act, or learn. If these problems interfere with your child’s everyday life, it may be necessary to get therapy. You might wonder does my child need counseling? Does my child need therapy? Why would a child need therapy? In therapy, […]
20 June 2024
Social or Pragmatic Skills
Social pragmatic language is the language we use when we are in another person’s presence, even if we do not directly interact with them. Social pragmatic language includes verbal and nonverbal communication. Many of these skills come naturally to some people, but not everyone excels with understanding social pragmatic language. A diagnosis of Social Communication […]
19 June 2024
Increasing your Child’s Expressive Language Skills
How can you get involved? Feeling like your child is falling behind in their communication and expressive language activities for toddlers can be tough but if you’re reading this then you’re on the right path to making proactive steps to improve your child’s development. But where do you start? This is a question we hear […]
11 June 2024
How Occupational Therapy Improves Executive Functioning in Kids
Executive functioning skills play a crucial role in our daily lives, influencing decision-making, planning, and task organization. Let's take a look at 5 ways Occupational Therapy can help!
7 June 2024
Helping Your Child Master the /th/ Sound: Tips from a Professional
The /th/ sound is a challenging but important sound for children to master. It appears in many common words and is crucial for clear speech and effective communication.
6 June 2024
Helping Your Child Master the /r/ Sound: Tips and Exercises
The /r/ sound is a crucial part of speech, frequently occurring in the English language. While most children master the /r/ sound by age five and a half, some may not do so until they are seven.