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
Speech Language Pathology
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
Will Using Sign Delay My Child’s Speech?
…NO! Simply put, it will NOT delay your child’s speech. It is a misconceived notion that using sign language with your young child will delay their ability to speak. The research shows quite the opposite and is in support of using sign language to help your child become verbal. In other words, sign language can 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
4 Tips To Communicate With Your Young Child
I recently spoke to a group of moms with kiddos one year of age and under. As I wrote these tips down to talk about with them, I realized these are great tips to share with all of you as well! Communication can be such a complicated thing for many of us and our kiddos Continue reading
Activities To Build Language At Home This Summer
Summer is here and it is time to dust off the toys and work on those play skills! Does the thought of that scare you? Are you wondering where the heck to even start? You are not alone. Many parents really aren’t sure what toys to use in play or what to saying when playing 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
6 Tips To Get Your Child To Sit Through A Book
Sometimes it can be hard to get some of our kiddos to sit through a book. Special needs or not, it takes interest, attention and great patience on both the child and the adults part! Think about it. We could quickly watch the pages flip, which may be interesting enough on its own. Or we Continue reading