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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…
Play has often been called the “work of children” (American Academy of Pediatrics, 2007). Is there anything that sounds more joyful than the sound of kids at play? The happiness on their faces and the sound of bliss in their voices show how much kids enjoy being able to play Read more…
This blog helps you to relate feeding and speech to muscle tone. Thus it gives better idea
about your child’s needs and help them using the right approach.
Oral-motor skills refer to the movement of the muscles of the face (e.g., jaw, tongue, and lips). These skills develop rapidly during the first three years.
Why do we need to know how to stimulate language in a child? Won’t they learn it naturally? Sometimes they don’t, in this post learn what we can do to help