Is your two year old not talking yet?
Here are some basic techniques you can employ right away to help him get started:
1-Start teaching him signs. Good first sign words are more, open, help and all done. Pair the sign with the word every time you use it.
Speech Therapy with Rachele!
Another fun day with Torey and Cayenne, both therapy dogs certified through Pet Partners in the San Francisco office.
This was Torey’s second time working with students in speech therapy sessions and it was yet again a positive and meaningful day for Rachele and her students.
Home Suggestions for Storytelling & Inferencing Skills
Reading books with children is helpful at any age. As children get older, you can help facilitate critical thinking skills by asking higher level questions. This will help strengthen his/her story telling skills, sharing personal experiences and inferencing abilities.
Attending an IEP meeting is inherently a stressful, often fearful, time for parents. An initial IEP occurs after a child has been assessed for the very first time, usually around age 3. A speech therapist and possibly a psychologist are scheduled to visit your home and interview you about how your child communicates and behaves.
Ask Questions:
Asking questions is usually a quick go-to when wanting your child to speak. What's that? Where is it? Do you want it? There are other less demanding ways though to help your child speak more often. If you have a child on the Autism Spectrum, all the more important to use varying techniques to help your child speak more often but more importantly, spontaneously.
It’s a very scary and stressful time when your child has just been diagnosed with Autism, or Autism Spectrum Disorder, ASD. He’s 2 or 3 years old and you had a feeling that something wasn’t quite right for some time. You finally get an appointment with a developmental pediatrician and he confirms what you suspected.
On January 2nd 2018, Seven Bridges Therapy is moving into a beautiful new Therapy Center located at 1202 Vicente St. San Francisco Ca, 94116.
Ocean Ave and Woodacre clients, please take note!
We can't wait to see you there!
We had an amazing time at the Autism Speaks SF Walk this year. We urge you to get out and walk with us in San Jose this April!
Click below to register
https://act.autismspeaks.org/
As parents we all anticipate our children's needs. We do it naturally without a second thought. When he has trouble putting his shoe on, we reach in and put it on for him. When he can't get that puzzle piece in immediately, we reach over and show him how to get it in.
If hearing language all around him was enough, your child would not be in speech therapy right now. We need to give your child another way of taking in information, not just auditorily. Cueing, or prompting, is the key. In therapy we cannot just tell your child what to say all the time and you should not be doing so at home either.
