The A-B-Cs of Behavior
Problem behaviors may be a common challenge for students, especially those with developmental and learning disabilities. Parents, educators, and family members may find problem behaviors in children a common source… Read more »
Follow the Leader: Using Reciprocal Imitation to Build Play and Language
Learning to play is a foundational skill in child development. To engage with others, children must first demonstrate joint attention. Joint attention is the shared focus of two individuals on… Read more »
Strategies for Early Language Development
Children’s first few years of life are a vital time in their speech and language development. Parents are a key factor in this development as they are their child’s first… Read more »
Early Intervention: An Overview
Early intervention is a term used to describe therapeutic services for children from birth to age three. For infants and toddlers not meeting developmental milestones, early intervention services are critical… Read more »
Baby Sign Language
Baby sign language is a great way to encourage language before your baby is able to vocally produce words. It allows a baby to communicate what he wants, or what… Read more »
Using Legos to Build Social Skills and Language
Social skills play a role in all stages of life from family relationships and friendships to romantic relationships and career success. Social skills are a challenge for many children with… Read more »
Say what you mean, mean what you say (Autoclitic Verbal Operants)
What are autoclitic tacts? Simply put, autoclitic tacts indicate something about the strength of the response and the certainty, or not, of the speaker. This complex verbal operant was originally… Read more »
Multilingual Populations: Is it a disorder or a language difference?
Many children grow up multilingual, or speaking multiple languages. The prevalence of speech, language, and hearing disorders in the multilingual population is similar to that of the monolingual population. Some… Read more »
Messy Play
Tactile play offers endless learning opportunities and messy play is a crucial component of early education. There are many benefits of messy play. What are the benefits of messy play?… Read more »
How to Support Gestalt Language Processors Using the Natural Language Acquisition (NLA) Protocol
There are two ways children can develop language. One way is called analytic language development or analytic language processing (ALP), which is considered the traditional style of language acquisition that… Read more »
