Discover expert strategies for encouraging eye contact in children with special needs. Learn how to balance support and sensitivity, understand the impact of screen time, and explore the role of cultural differences in communication.
Learn how to create a stress-free communication environment using AAC devices with insights from speech-language pathologist Lenora Edwards. Discover practical tips to help your child connect more deeply and reduce frustration in daily interactions.
Learn about your child’s current developmental level and routines to boost their development and improve the brain functions involved in sleep, speech development and social skills.
Sensory overload, communication delays, pressure to perform, understaffed classrooms are only a few of the reasons why children with autism struggle in regular classrooms. Sensory Enrichment Therapy can help re-wire the brain functions involved.
Developmental milestones of writing and the pencil grip. Why it’s worth getting it right. Review of existing techniques. Sensory enrichment activities that can help.
“Yeah, just off these small things, there was a massive difference, just of the first night” This is the whole story… A few weeks ago
8 early stages of natural speech for children, including autism: Eye contact, Spitting, Mouthing, Biting, Vocalizing, Imitating sounds, Mama, First word.
There are 8 early stages of speech development in children: Eye contact, Spitting, Mouthing, Biting, Vocalizing, Imitating your sounds, Mama, dada, First word. All children, including those with autism, need to work through each of these milestones to develop natural speech.
An inspirational journey of a mother who helped her child with autism achieve his best potential. It covers various therapies and interventions that worked for them, including Mendability’s Sensory Enrichment Therapy
In Part 1 we reviewed early stages of speech development. Part 2 is for individuals who have shown that can either put sounds together, say individual words, put words together, formulate sentences (whether echolalic or spontaneous)