Have a Hoppy Easter – 3 PT Activities for Spring!
Looking for ways to practice PT skills while having fun during easter?! Look no further than these PT tailored ideas.
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Toy Highlight: Fisher-Price Laugh and Learn Piggy Bank
Piggybank toys are fan favorites during physical therapy sessions for children as young as six months through early childhood. Ready to PLAY?!
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Helping Your Baby to Roll Over
Rolling provides children with the first opportunity to be independently mobile and discover their environment through movement. It’s an intriguing discovery for baby, and sometimes a thrilling-but-nerve-wracking one for parents! Needless to say, it is an exciting skills that helps to create the building blocks for more advanced movements. Rolling helps infants develop the appropriate
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The Power of PLAY in SPEECH!
Play is the foundation of learning for young children. Kids use play to learn about the world around them and practice new skills. When play is the basis of learning, children acquire new skills and information significantly faster than if they are simply told about it. By incorporating learning into play, you can help your
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3 Strategies for Communication
As parents, we all want our children to be effective communicators, but sometimes we struggle to know how to help them develop these skills. The good news is that there are simple and fun ways to practice communication skills with your child every day! We believe that practicing communication skills can be a fun and
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5 Tips for Stuttering
When young children are developing, their brain is working overtime to make space for all the new information they are taking in on a daily basis. When demands increase, it is natural for that processing to slow down due to insufficient capacity. Stuttering can occur when the capacity for fluent speech is not meeting the demands
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Spring Scavenger Hunt for Speech!
After a long, cold winter indoors, what better way to welcome in the spring weather with an outdoor scavenger hunt? Here are 3 spring themed scavenger hunts you can take your children on while helping them target their speech goals: Attributes/Adjectives Find something that is: Soft Long Wooden Dirty Fuzzy Colorful Slow Sticky Wet Smooth
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4 Ways to Support Your Child’s Independence with Self-Care
A child’s independence with self-care tasks is influenced by many factors, such as the task difficulty, the child’s skill level, the child’s age, emotional and sensory regulation, and the child’s ability to attend and follow adult directions. The simple tips below could help your child increase their overall independence and participation in self-care tasks, with
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Benefits of Sign Language
When children are first learning to communicate, they may experience challenges or frustrations associated with making their wants and needs known. Until they develop the appropriate expressive language and motor speech skills required for fully expressing themselves, they rely on parents or caregivers to guess what they are wanting. This can lead to lots of “guess work”
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Navigating Pacifiers
Pacifiers can be great to help babies self-soothe and fall asleep! Research also shows that pacifiers can decrease risk of SIDS. Pacifier use can also help strengthen the muscles in the tongue and mouth to improve latch with bottle and breastfeeding. It is reccomended to introduce a pacifier to your little one around 4-6 weeks,
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