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Social Skills for Autistic Adolescents and Teens
Social Skills for Autistic Adolescents and Teens Today we're discussing how to teach conversation and social skills to older children who are struggling. This may include children with autism or other social impairments. Social Skill Therapy for Autistic Adolescent and Teens: Join the
Speech Therapy for Autism: Activities, PDFs, and Info
Speech Therapy for Autism: Activities, PDFs, and Info Autism, also called Autism Spectrum Disorder, is a diagnosis that describes a group of children with a common cluster of symptoms, though the degree of severity for each of those symptoms varies widely from child to child. These symptoms include
AAC Devices for Autism | Are Communication Devices Helpful?
AAC Devices for Autism AAC Devices for autism were designed with one thing in mind: giving a voice to children who can't speak. Speaking is how we as adults communicate with those around us. It allows us to interact with other people and influence the world around
Sign Language Flash Cards: Free PDF Download
Free Sign Language Flashcard Download Click here to download the sign language flashcards for free! Join the Hub to Access (Free Trial) Research has shown that teaching sign language to young children is beneficial to all children, whether they have speech and language
Child/Baby not Responding To Name: How Can We Help?
Child/Baby not Responding to Name: Many parents worry when their baby or toddler is not responding to his name. A child may be ignoring you when you call his name for a variety of reasons. Sometimes, it is just because the child isn't tuned
How to Get Your Child to Respond To Voices
Photo Courtesy of Stuart Miles - FreeDigitalPhotos.net One of the earliest pre-requisites for developing communication skills is that the baby is able to respond to sound and/or voice. For most children, this skill develops naturally and no formal training is required. However, children with severe disabilities may need
Baby Speech Therapy: How to Promote Language Development in Infants/Toddlers
Baby Speech Therapy: How to Promote Language Development in Infants/Toddlers Speech Therapy for Babies Congratulations! You’re little bundle of joy is here!! Keep in mind that it’s never too early to start promoting the development of good communication skills. This is especially true if your child was born
Stimming and Hand Flapping when Excited – How to Help
Buy Now Stimming and Hand Flapping When Excited - What is it? Is it a problem if a child is stimming and hand flapping when excited? Sometimes, children will flap their hands or engaging in self-stimulatory behaviors (also called “stimming”)
Calming Strategies for Kids: Techniques to Teach to Children
Calming Strategies for Children: Techniques to Teach to Children It's no secret that children feel a lot of big feelings. Our children with emotional regulation issues (such as those with autism, ADHD, anxiety, anger issues, etc.) may feel those feelings even more intensely than other children. And they
Social Stories for Children with Language Delays
Hello everybody! Today’s post is inspired by a reader who was wondering how she can use social stories with her autistic son to help him understand basic social situations. Here are a few ideas of how you can use social stories with your child as well. These social stories
Speech Delays and Special Diets: Do They Help?
Speech Delays and Special Diets: Can They Help? About 9 months ago, I found out that I cannot tolerate eating gluten or dairy. The news was devastating at the time. Most of my favorite foods contain both gluten and dairy!! How could this be?? Well, turns out the
Teaching Play Skills Through Imitation
Teaching Play Skills I’ve talked before about how important it is for children to learn how to do pretend play. There is a strong connection between being able to pretend that a toy is something real and being able to use a word to represent the real thing. So
Playground Activities for Speech and Language
It’s finally Spring! That means time to go outside!! All kids love going to the park or the playground, but did you know that you can work on speech and language skills while you’re there as well?? You can!! Enjoy these playground activities for speech and language development! Playground
Speech Therapy for Toddlers and Late Talkers: Podcast 8
Click Here to Check Out My E-Book for Jump Starting Late Talkers The topic of this episode is "Help! My Child isn't talking yet!" This episode will give you information about speech therapy for toddlers at home and what you can do to jumpstart your late talkers. And
Mumbling: 5 Steps to Cure It In Children
How to Reduce Mumbling in Children: So what do you do with the child who knows how to say all of her sounds correctly but in conversational speech she mumbles and doesn’t articulate well? That was the exact question I got from a reader this week and
Sign Language for Toddlers with Speech Delay: Does it Help?
Sign Language for Toddlers with Speech Delay: Does it Help? There is much confusion in the world of parenting about using sign language with your child. Research has shown that teaching sign language to young children is beneficial to all children, whether they have speech and language delays
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Topic Maintenance Speech Therapy Activities
Topic Maintenance Speech Therapy Activities: "Topic maintenance" refers to a person's ability to remain "on topic" when having a conversation with someone else. Our conversations with others tend to meander from one topic to another but these topic shifts need to make sense to the listener or the
Social Skills Activities for Preschoolers: Speech Therapy Ideas
Social Skills Activities for Preschoolers Many children with social language impairments have difficulty initiating or starting an interaction. Some children aren’t at all motivated to interact with others and therefore need a little bit of encouragement from us to get the ball rolling. Other children are very interested
How to Help a 3-Year-Old with Speech Delay
How to Help a 3-year-old with Speech Delay: When it comes to speech and language skills, a 3-year-old should have a word for just about everything around him and he should be able to put those words together to make short sentences. His speech should also be
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