Articles related to speech and language in children with special needs.
Many of us relate academics to reading and writing and assume that these are skills that our children pick up once they start preschool or schooling. But there are foundations that children build much more naturally much earlier that tend to go overlooked. A very important foundation that is related Read more…
When it comes to teaching mathematics to children there is often a misconception that math skills start with numbers. Whereas before a child learns colours, shapes or numbers they usually develop precursor skills from the age of 0-3 years that build the foundation on which other mathematical skills are learnt. Read more…
It is not always the case that a child with a history of speech and language difficulties should have literacy problems. But if these speech difficulties persist beyond 5 years of age, there is a higher risk of developing associated difficulties in reading, spelling and sometimes maths. Many parents wonder Read more…
Sensory processing is a complex system that involves receiving the sensory information successfully from all the senses such as sight, smell, hear, taste, balance etc, interpreting that sensory information correctly, combining this information from different senses to create a complete picture, deciding on response based on the information form all Read more…
Before starting off with learning alphabets and numbers, education starts off with matching and sorting. And in that order specifically. Although they seem like relatively easy tasks they involve the implementation of many cognitive skills. Matching can only be done when the child is able to observe and recognize the Read more…
A miracle in motion, speech production is a highly coordinated movement that most of us take for granted. Every sound, every syllable, every word, and every sentence requires an extremely unique precise placement and movement that are transitioned in a brief amount of time. For children to be able to Read more…
Book reading is a fantastic place to learn about the meaning of words and the pleasure of sharing a story. Turning reading into an interactive experience is the key to the development of communication. One of the best things about books is that the pictures and words are always there Read more…
Rudoph and Link in 2002 found that feeding disorders occur in 25-35% of developmentally normal children and 40-70% of children with developmental disabilities and/or chronic medical conditions. Looking at this study, it is obvious that feeding disorders are more common that we think. Here are some questions we get asked Read more…
Music and rhythm have been shown to activate the whole brain, and not just the right hemisphere, as originally thought. In 2011, researchers from the Academy of Finland developed a ground-breaking new method that allows to study how the brain processes different aspects of music, such as rhythm, tonality and Read more…
The brain is the main beneficiary of any kind of aerobic activity. There is a strong brain-body connection. Hence, it is important to remember that learning doesn’t happen from the neck up, but from the feet up! (Michael Kuczala, TEDxAshburn). Movement helps the brain in a variety of ways: It Read more…