The ability to effectively communicate with others affects all aspects of our daily lives. Children that struggle with any aspect of communication can feel frustrated, embarrassed, or isolated. When this occurs, it may be time to seek professional support for your child. The top 10 reasons to seek speech and language therapy include: 1. Limited …
Everyone is still at home trying to juggle work, the kids, and everything else, and some parents are feeling stress about keeping up with academic skills. There are so many ways to support learning and academic skill development beyond worksheets and apps! In this article I’m going to give you some ways you can work …
With so many parents being thrown into the role of teacher in the last week, we have been receiving many questions about how to teach certain areas of curriculum. One of those areas is reading comprehension. Let me start by encouraging you to take a deep breath – it doesn’t have to be that hard, …
In this series of articles on growth mindset we are exploring ways to help children with developmental and mental health challenges have a healthy view of themselves and their abilities. As we covered in part 1 and part 2 of this series, feelings of failure and difficulty seeing more than one solution lead to rigid …
In part 1 of our series on growth mindset we learned the difference between fixed and growth mindset, and why this is important to address for children with developmental and mental health challenges such as ADHD, anxiety, autism, and related issues. One of the biggest problems for kids with a fixed mindset is making mistakes. This …
What’s your mindset? Does your child struggle with feeling like he isn’t good at anything? Does she break down when faced with mistakes or frustration? Is it tough to help your child see their potential? Many children have a negative mindset when it comes to their abilities, especially those with challenges such as ADHD, autism, …
The ability to regulate (or control) our thoughts and actions is a critical part of our higher-level thinking or executive function skills. When someone struggles with one or more of these skills then self-regulation is more difficult. In prior articles we covered the skills of planning, organizing, time management, task initiation, working memory, and metacognition. …
As we discussed in Part 1 of this series, executive functions are higher level thinking skills that allow us to appropriately manage our thoughts and behaviors. There are ten executive function skills that are directly related to our ability to self-regulate. In the previous article I covered the functions of planning, organizing, and time management. …
Executive Functions are higher level thinking skills that allow us to use our cognitive skills to plan and carry out behaviors. Whether we are planning out our day, getting chores done, or making sure we are on time for a meeting we are using executive function skills to plan, organize, and appropriately carry out …
Games are a great way to improve skills for kids in all areas of development – and they are fun! I like to play games with my family and friends, but I also love to play games at work with my clients who have developmental disorders or speech and language disorders. Children with speech delays, …
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