The win-win of having your child evaluated!
If you are a parent and you have some concerns about your child's speech or language development, or if your doctor has recommended an evaluation, bringing him in for an assessment really is a win-win situation.
Recommendations for Home to work on Fluency
Allow your child to finish what he/she is saying and never interrupt when he/she is dis-fluent
- Restate what you heard him/her say. Model it in a slow and calm voice. "I heard you say...", "That is a...".
- During play time you can model (without discussing it) how you can control your voice/sounds/actions: fast/slow (running/walking), bumpy/smooth (cars driving), loud/quiet (roaring/squeaking), etc.
Top ten ways to help your child's speech / language skills progress all day every day:
1) Remember - every moment is a learning opportunity.
2) Giving your child choices is an easy way to create communication opportunities. For example, do you want yogurt or cereal? The blue shirt or the red shirt? It also helps him feel like he has some say in what happens during his day.
Hello Parents of Seven Bridges Therapy,
Since grad school, I have always been interested in the positive
effects of therapy dog’s while working with children during speech
therapy sessions and hope to own a therapy dog myself one day to
work with students.
PICNIC
Get your kids out and about while working on social skills, too!
Materials:
Basket or bag
Several choices of snacks NOTE: If your child is working on specific speech sounds, you can pick items that have that the target sound in it -- peaches, pears, pretzels, popcorn, etc.
Lee-Anne Bloom, OTR/L
This is what we are up to in OT this week:
Green Zone Kite Puppet
We cut (fine motor), put on a face (body awareness), assembled (more fine motor) to make a green zone puppet kite. The child named him Green Zone. When asked why his name was Green Zone, the student said, "because he is happy" (working on emotional regulation). He is showing he is happy by the smile on his face.
It is undeniable that there are many health benefits attributed to exercise. However, for those working out to lose weight, it is not enough to exercise only. When you increase your levels of physical activity, the body can find a way to adapt. Therefore, just because you exercise more doesn’t mean you will also lose those additional pounds you’ve been hoping to drop.
As more and more people decide to eliminate dairy from their diets, you may think that an osteoporosis epidemic may be on the horizon in the near future. Because really, without milk products, how are you supposed to build strong bones? It can be utterly confusing, which is why we’ve come up with a list of alternative methods to maintain and build bone health.
When it comes to a healthy lifestyle, exercise is undoubtedly important. But is there ever a time when it’s best to skip a workout session or two? While it may sound surprising, sometimes that’s exactly what you should do. If you’re trying to reach your optimal health, exercise isn’t always the answer.
For the workaholics, it’s all too easy to get caught up in work. You can only accomplish so much in a day before it’s time to pack up and head home. That’s why many people are lulled into believing that eating lunch at the office desk may seem like a good way to make the most of their work time.
