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Toddler Emotions: Hey, I Don’t Like That!
In the video, I encourage 41-month old Sam to use his words to tell his big sister, Stella, that he doesn’t like it when she pushes him. This skill for using his words, rather than his behavior… more →
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Toddler Emotions: Hey, I Don't Like That!
wrote 9 hours ago: In the video, I encourage 41-month old Sam to use his words to tell his big sister, Stella, that he … more →
Why Blog?
wrote 15 hours ago: Over the past year, we have been releasing, on average, two news releases per week highlighting the … more →
Saturday Morning Post: PART 2 Continued - The Importance of Talking to Your Child
wrote 3 days ago: Today, I continue my discussion on the importance of talking to your child and the relationship to … more →
Mr. Potato Head in Action
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wrote 5 days ago: A few months ago, in my post A Great Toy for Language Development, I listed a few concepts that coul … more →
Alexithymia - An Important Link Between Language and Behavior
wrote 5 days ago: Parents and teachers aren’t surprised when toddlers burst into tears because they are frustrated or … more →
Top 5 reasons to raise your children bilingually (v2.0)
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wrote 1 week ago: Every once in a while I meet someone who makes me consider this point again. It’s usually (as … more →
Developing Vocabulary: A colorful pallete of words
wrote 1 week ago: June 9, 2013 It has been much longer since my last post than I had intended! Life happened! I have … more →
Saturday Morning Post: PART 2 The Importance of Talking to Your Child
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wrote 1 week ago: Today, I continue my series, The 7 most important fundamentals to keep in mind when raising a young … more →
Auditory Processing and Autism
wrote 1 week ago: Children with autism tend to have strong visual processing skills, which helps them learn through si … more →
Do deaf children learn to communicate through sign before hearing children learn to communicate through speech?
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wrote 1 week ago: Disclaimer: This post is the result of curiosity and little digging on my part. I am not an expert, … more →
If Obama’s Preschool Proposal Becomes Law…
wrote 1 week ago: Photo: Alessandra Hartkopf for Strategies for Children It was inspiring to hear President Obama call … more →
rethinking functional behavior -- and the tyranny of made-up deadlines
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wrote 1 week ago: * . Yesterday, I wrote a post about teaching Katie to respect other people’s need for downtime … more →
Sleep - or the lack thereof...
wrote 1 week ago: Sigh. She’s had another of her insomiac nights. They used to happen about once a week, but w … more →
Car Talk
wrote 2 weeks ago: With the summer upon us, many families will be traveling, yielding potentially many hours in a car o … more →
Joint Attention - More Than Just a Gaze
wrote 2 weeks ago: Babies come into this world knowing how to cry- learning to laugh takes more time. It’s an acquired … more →
Speech therapist update
wrote 2 weeks ago: We think we have found a speech pathologist who can do a speech evaluation for Alpha in German. She … more →
Peek-A-Boo!
wrote 2 weeks ago: Peek-a-boo is a game which is played in many different cultures around the world. Although it is a s … more →
Being taught how to think? It happened at some point...
wrote 2 weeks ago: My mother is always talking out loud. Okay, I know all people need to talk out loud to function in s … more →
For the Love of Reading With a Child
wrote 2 weeks ago: I know you can relate when I say that the quality of a good children’s book should not be meas … more →
