As a parent, your role is to support your children in every way possible. While most parents focus on providing emotional and material support, it's equally important to pay attention to your own energy levels. As a parent, you are responsible for not only your...
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Energy Interventions for Parents: Empowering Yourself to Better Support Your Children
As a parent, your role is to support your children in every way possible. While most parents focus on providing emotional and material support, it's equally important to pay attention to your own energy levels. As a parent, you are responsible for not only your...
How to Incorporate Sensory Experiences into Everyday Play During the Summer
Summer is just around the corner and there are many ways to incorporate sensory activities and experiences this summer. Many families have been confined to their homes which has resulted in their children not being able to meet their sensory needs across settings,...
Does Your Child Become Distressed When the Weather Changes?
Does your child become distressed when there is a change in the weather? We are certainly seeing a lot of children encountering difficulties because of all of the recent snowfall. Think about it: snow is unpredictable! How much are we going to get? Will there be...
Staying the Course: Tackling Feeding Difficulties
Whenever a fellow SLP asks me about the hardest part of Feeding Therapy, I tend to land on the same answer: getting the parent to “buy in.” If you are a caregiver who has dealt with a “picky eater,” I first want to say, I see you and I know your struggle. Feeling like...
Feedback, Feedback, 1, 2, 3
The type of feedback you give (knowledge of performance or knowledge of results) will make a difference in your child’s ability to modify his tactics. In the second part of this post, you will learn how the different types of feedback can influence Johnny’s ability to...
Motor Planning 101
You may have heard someone say this magical and mysterious word at some point; Motor Planning. What is it, and why is it so important? Motor planning is the ability to assess, plan, and organize a motor activity, and then implement the motor skills to achieve that...
Crawling
Parents often ask me, “Is crawling really that important?” The answer is, “YES! I believe it is crucial for the development of various skills and learning.” There are interesting theories about a link between lack of crawling and ADD/ADHD and dyslexia. This stage is...
An Important Message to Parents: Torticollis, Tummy Time, and Plagiocephaly
I am a pediatric physical therapist with 40 years experience and I want to speak directly to you, a parent who is looking to educate his/herself on their child's development. Many babies are diagnosed with Torticollis, or twisted neck, caused by a shortening or...
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