If you have followed our site for some time now, then you know that I have a love for everything apple, especially the iPad and helpful apps! I have used so many apps successfully in therapy and with families and kiddos to develop speech and language skills, to create control over little kiddos worlds through Continue reading
Autism
How To Help Your Child Ask A Friend To Play
Making friends is hard. For many people. Not just people with autism or communication disorders. That said, it is one of the big struggles that we see starting with our young kiddos that also struggle with autism and other delays and disorders. As a speech-language pathologist I talk to all kinds of parents, who’s children Continue reading
4 Tips For Teaching Your Child About Personal Space
Mary woke up and just wanted to hide in the bedroom. She could already hear her child with autism was awake by the stirring coming from his room. She kept replaying yesterday’s playground scenario in her head. Her son, Jason, was playing on his own when a group of kids approached him and he went Continue reading
My Best Kept Secret: On Autism & Sharing
In keeping with our topic this week we are going to touch more on the topic of sharing and add in a bit of turn-taking as well. Before we do that we need to consider your child’s age! For example, a one-year-old is not going to understand sharing yet like we might expect a five-year-old to understand. Continue reading
A Letter To The Parents That Don’t Live With Autism
Many parents want the same things for their children: a healthy, happy, successful life. Isn’t it true that you just want the best for your child? So why do we have to be so judgmental of other parents that may not do things the way we do it? And why do we feel that it Continue reading
10 Apps For Autism
With the thousands of apps that keep hitting the app store, it can be so overwhelming to know which apps may be good for your little one! Since there are so many studies out there that show the use of an iPad and the various learning apps can be extremely beneficial in supplementing therapy services Continue reading
How To Get iPad Grants and Funding
There are so many children that could benefit from the use of an iPad to help them communicate. Is your child one of them? Is it disheartening when you know it’s just not in the budget? Feeling a bit stuck? If only insurance or medicare would cover a $500 iPad for use as a Continue reading
What To Say To The Mom Of A Child Having A Meltdown At The Grocery Store
Have you ever attempted a shopping trip with your child (with or without autism) and your child had a meltdown? Like absolutely positively just lost it??? You consider ditching the cart and making a beeline for the front door but then think to yourself, “If I leave every time this happens I will never get Continue reading
25 Songs For Autism & Apraxia of Speech
It is time to put on your singing hat…even if you cannot sing! I recently posted this picture on our facebook page so you can be sure that I am no professional singer (even though I sing all day long around kids)! I share this as I need for you to let loose and Continue reading
What Does Perseveration Mean Anyways?
Perseveration is a term that gets thrown around a lot these days. In articles, in conversation between therapists and parents, online… But more often than not, I find that many parents are not quite sure how this term applies (or doesn’t apply to their child). So let’s pick it apart and break it Continue reading