Sensory Strategies in Action: How to Alert or Calm Yourself or Your Child
You may have heard of relaxation techniques to calm oneself by using soothing music or deep breathing. What about techniques to alert oneself when experiencing low energy? When addressing sensory… Read more »
Therapeutic Listening Blog
Using Music to Improve Sensory Processing Music is frequently used as a therapeutic tool to calm or organize children. However, does music have the potential for sensory organization? In 2007,… Read more »
Understanding Sensory Processing Disorder
It is our sense of vision that allows us to see and make sense of the words on this page. However, our sense of vision may not always process information… Read more »
Graphic Organizers and Reading Comprehension
Research has shown that children with Autism have difficulties with reading comprehension. It is difficult for them to answer literal comprehension questions such as “Where did the character go?, What… Read more »
Disability Rights, Neurodiversity, and ABA Abolitionism
In the late 1960s and 1970s, a disability rights movement emerged in the UK and US, which rejected the medical view of disability, and posited that disability is a characteristic… Read more »
Connection Between Spoken Language and Literacy
The experiences with talking and listening gained during the preschool years prepare children to learn to read and write during the early elementary school years. This means that children who… Read more »
Scholastic’s Top 100 Children’s Books
Choosing the right book to read with your child can be difficult. There are many options and how do we determine what is age-appropriate? Click here to see Scholastic’s Top… Read more »
What is a Sensory Diet and Why Does My Child Need One?
Every person explores, feels, and senses her environment differently. For some people, playing soothing background music helps increase focus, while for others, all background noise is distracting. A sensory diet… Read more »
Generalization
The overarching goal of any therapeutic activity is for the child or adult to be able to use the targeted skill in any location with any person. Sometimes skills that… Read more »
Well-Being and Resilience in Children
A communication disorder can impact a child’s ability to participate in activities and form relationships with others. These difficulties can impact a child’s psychological and social well-being. Wessells (2015) argued… Read more »