How Language Impairment Affects Reading Comprehension
Reading comprehension can be a problem area for those children diagnosed with language impairment. Since reading comprehension is made up of a group of skills, problems in certain language skill areas can affect your child’s reading comprehension. Common strategies put in place to help teach reading comprehension are not effective for those children with language impairments. If these foundational skills are not addressed, a child may continue to fall behind in school and struggle well into their teen years.
Helping Families Support Feeding Therapy in the Home
Feeding is a central occupation that plays a critical role in an individual’s life. When a child has trouble eating, it is important to identify what might be causing those sensitivities. A child may be recommended for feeding services if they have difficulties such as selective eating, sensory issues surrounding food, and overall reduced acceptance of foods. These behaviors may cause malnourishment and weight loss in the child.
Helping Support Positive Eating Behaviors in Your Child
Feeding is a critical part of your child’s daily routine. It can be very frustrating when a child refuses to eat or has a meltdown every day around mealtimes. Feeding difficulties are prevalent in children with autism or those with sensory processing sensitivities. Sensory sensitivities can cause your child to have difficulty being exposed to foods because of their taste, smell, or texture. This can cause negative behaviors around meals.
Effectiveness of the PDMS-2 for Children with Cerebral Palsy
Due to the nature of Cerebral Palsy, therapists need a good motor evaluative tool to evaluate the condition and progress of the child. All tests are great tools for evaluating children in physical and occupational therapy settings. However, the best test for an individual child, in this case, a child with Cerebral Palsy, will differ.
What is the Peabody Test?
One of the most common tests used by both physical and occupational therapists is the Peabody. Although therapists typically refer to this assessment as the Peabody, the test is officially titled the Peabody Developmental Motor Scale-Second Edition (PDMS-2).
Recasting as an Intervention for Language Development
Recasting, like expansions, communication temptations, and verbal routines, is a great tool to encourage language development in children.
A recast is a repeat of what a child said, but with an addition that adds meaning or corrects what the child has said. Recasting is a form of modeling, and what is said by the initiator holds the same meaning as what the child initially said.
What is Recasting and How to Use It as a Parent
A recast is a repeat of what a child said, but the adult includes an addition that adds meaning or corrects what the child has said. Recasting is a form of modeling correct language form, and the recast formed by the adult holds the same meaning as what the child initially said. A recast can be corrective but doesn’t have to be.
Outdoor Play in Occupational Therapy
In the past years, there has been a lot of advocating done to incorporate more physical activity in the schools to fight inactivity and childhood obesity. Incorporating therapy outdoors is another way to help include more physical activity in a child’s day.
The Importance of Outdoor Play
In this new age of technology, sometimes it is easy to forget how fun and important it is to be outdoors. Not only is it fun to play outside, but outdoor play provides a lot of opportunities for your child to learn important skills. With the warmer weather coming up, here is why outdoor play should not be forgotten!
Strengthening: Research on Resistance Training and Therapist Resources
This article looks at the effectiveness of resistance training for those children with cerebral palsy (CP). However, the article also summarizes the strength training protocols for typically developing children and is applicable to children that don’t have CP.
Strength Training in Physical Therapy and Daily Life
If you’re reading this article, you are probably wondering about strength or resistance training for kids. When is it okay to start? How can it be beneficial? What types of exercises are appropriate? Keep reading to find out more!
SLP Service Delivery Methods: Pull Out vs. Push-In
There is not much in-depth research that has been done on what method is the most successful method of service delivery. This article summarizes an Evidence-Based Systematic Review done on service delivery methods for speech-language interventions, particularly comparing pull out and push-in delivery and group versus individual therapy.
Transform Story Time into Learning through Interactive Book Reading
Interactive book reading is a fun way to build a child’s engagement and interest. It is particularly about helping your child be an active listener and a participant in the storytelling process. While they are having fun, they are also helping develop crucial components of their language and literacy.
Lego Therapy: Incorporating Social Skills Through Play
Social skills and participation is something that can be difficult to address in one-on-one therapy sessions but is a critical skill to teach when working with children. This is especially relevant for those children who are autistic. Lego Therapy and play-based clubs are a great way to incorporate teaching social skills.
Using Play for Learning and Development
Play and play-based therapy is a great way to teach your child crucial skills.
Play-based therapy is especially effective for teaching social participation skills to autistic children, but play can be modified to teach important skills in a way that your child is receptive to.
Play can serve a multitude of purposes depending on how the activity is presented to your child. Play can be more solitary, or it can be a method of social participation. Regardless of what type of play your child is engaged in, each format can be greatly beneficial for teaching new skills.
Providing Pediatric Physical Therapy in School Versus Clinical Settings
Physical therapy in all settings is rewarding; however, there are some differences to expect when providing physical therapy in school versus clinical settings.
The Difference Between Your Child’s Physical Therapy in School versus Clinical Settings
You may be curious as to why your child requires both school-based and clinical physical therapy, or, perhaps, you’re confused as to why your child qualifies for clinic-based physical therapy but not for in-school services. Keep reading below to learn more about the similarities and differences of physical therapy in different settings.
Parent-Training as an Intervention to Help Children with Speech Delays
The Hanen Centre’s program called It Takes Two to Talk is designed for parents of children birth to age 5 with language delays. The program teaches parents strategies to teach children to add language to interactions, adjust everyday routines to encourage turn-taking, and to follow a child’s lead. These strategies taught to parents are also great tools for SLPs to use during therapy.
Communication Temptations: What is it?
Communication Temptations is a strategy for parents to use to help build their child’s speech and vocabulary. It operates based on helping your child initiate a conversation or communication instead of just responding. As the name implies, communication temptations are a way to tempt your child to be an initiator, rather than a passive participant when communicating.
What are IEPs and ETRs?
IEPs and ETRs are common terms you might encounter, especially if your child needs speech, occupational, or physical therapy. In this guide, we will break down the basics of what each term refers to and provide some great resources if you’d like to dig deeper about the pieces and parts that make up IEPs and ETRs.