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Top Ten Things Your SLP May Be Too Nice to Tell You…Tips for Parents for Maximizing Therapy Sessions at Home
TOP 10 THINGS YOUR THERAPIST WANTS YOU TO KNOW AND MAY BE TOO NICE TO TELL YOU -
1. Minimize the distractions from other people for your child, especially during initial sessions.
This means don’t have grandparents or your best friend or the neighbor’s children over until your child has established relationships with her therapists. It’s much easier to keep a new client’s attention if [...]
Feeding Resources (edited July 9, 2008)
I’ve found some great resources for parents and therapists who work with children with feeding difficulties.
Children with communication challenges often exhibit various problems with feeding skills. Sometimes these issues are sensory based, meaning there’s a difference in how a child’s system processes and handles the various textures, tastes, smells, and even the sight of foods. Sometimes it’s a physical problem, [...]
Daycare Woes
The last time my friend Kate complained about all of the substandard daycares she visits in her role as a developmental interventionist in our state’s early intervention program, I asked her to put fingers to the keyboard and record some of her observations and unfortunately, complaints. What you’ll read below is a contrast between theory, or how early childhood education should look, and reality, how she [...]
Toothbrushing for Toddlers
My friend, also a therapist in our state’s early intervention program, attended an initial team meeting for a child last week and had a discussion that I’d like to share with you. This child does not like to brush his teeth. Actually that’s not strong enough wording. In fact, he HATES to have his teeth brushed. According to my friend, he [...]
Attention Canadians…Possible Arsenic in Toddler Juice
http://news.sympatico.msn.ctv.ca/To…arning_08 0312
Public warned of possible arsenic in toddler juice
The public is being warned not to consume certain pear juices for toddlers as they may be contaminated with arsenic.
“Arsenic is a toxic heavy metal that may be carcinogenic and may pose developmental risks to children,” the Canadian Food Inspection Agency said in a news release Wednesday.
However, [...]
Social Games for Babies and Toddlers
I have received lots of questions lately from mothers of babies who have older siblings with language problems. They are so concerned about providing the “right” kinds of early activities to target language in their infants and younger babies, hoping to “head off” the difficulties their older children experienced. This is a valid concern for these parents. Late talking and other language difficulties do [...]
Parenting Styles to Promote Intellectual Success
In Lise Eliot’s great book What’s Going on in There? How the Brain and Mind Develop in the First Five Years of Life, she cited studies that uncovered the four features of parenting that most consistently relate to a child’s future intellectual and academic success. Studies were completed through extensive home observations. While these studies were conducted with parents of children without developmental issues, it [...]
No TV
There it was on August 6, 2007 on my computer screen. An answer to a prayer. A confirmation of what I’d been telling parents who had asked my opinion. A virtual replay of what my friends, who also happen to be pediatric therapists, and I had discussed time and time again. What, you ask, was [...]
Attention-Deprived Babies
When you hear the phrase “attention deprived babies,” what do you think? If you are like most people, your imagination conjures up stark images of abandoned babies in a large, colorless room filled with row upon row of cribs in an overseas orphanage or the dirty, half-naked, dark-skinned babies from Third World countries depicted in the [...]
Ignore Him
Last week while I was at a party here in Louisville, a woman gave me probably the saddest commentary I’ve ever heard on teaching children to talk. As we were watching her adorable 24-month-old son repeatedly chase a ball an adult had thrown, take it back to her, grin from ear-to-ear, and then grunt “UUHHHHH” to ask her [...]
