Speech Therapy for Apraxia: How It Differs From a Speech Delay
Two children can be equally hard to understand for completely different reasons. One is running late. The other is struggling to plan the movements. The plans…
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Practical, plain-language articles written by the therapists who work with children every day. Nothing here replaces advice about your own child, but it should help you ask better questions.
Speech Therapy for Babies: What It Looks Like Before First Words
The strongest early predictors of language are not words at all. They are pointing, babbling and back and forth attention, and they are all visible long…
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What Happens in an ABA Assessment
It is not a test your child can fail, and very little of it looks like testing. Here is what each part of the process is…
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Occupational Therapy for Babies: What It Is and When It Helps
A baby does not do homework or tie their shoes, so the referral confuses people. What an occupational therapist works on at this age is feeding,…
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What a Speech Therapy Evaluation Actually Includes
Most of it looks like playing, none of it can be failed, and the part that matters most is not the score. Here is what actually…
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Baby Physical Therapy: What It Is, Who It Helps and When to Ask
Head control, rolling, sitting and standing, and what to do when one of them is not arriving. The common reasons babies are referred to physical therapy,…
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Torticollis in Babies: Flat Heads, Head Tilts and Why Starting Early Matters
A head that always turns the same way and a flat spot on one side often go together. Both are common, both are treatable, and this…
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Feeding Therapy for Toddlers: What Actually Happens
Parents usually picture a table, a plate and a standoff. It is closer to play, it starts further back than most families expect, and the first…
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Speech Therapy for 2 Year Olds, 3 Year Olds and 4 Year Olds: What Changes
At two it is mostly you. At three the child starts doing the work. At four it begins to look like what people picture when they…
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Speech Milestones by Age: When to Wait and When to Call
Almost every parent of a quiet toddler has been told to wait and see. Sometimes that is right. Here is how to tell the difference.
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