Promoting Independent Living Skills Promoting Independent Living Skills for Children with Speech and Language Delays: Your SLP will assist you in setting goals based on assessment data that target and focus on initiating spontaneous communication in functional activities, engaging in reciprocal communication interactions, and generalizing gains across activities, environments, and communication partners; Introduce [...]
Star Wars Carbonite Cubes Experiment - Autism Sensory Activity Hide a few of your child’s favorite star wars lego toys (or other small toys) in an ice cube mixture. Mix together the baking soda and water in a bowl. Once mixed, pack the baking soda mixture around the star wars lego toy [...]
Eric Carle Activities for Fine Motor Skills! We often introduce the activity by watching the Brown Bear Brown Bear video (link provided below). This helps increase motivation for task completion! First, complete the dot to dot! Then, color the formed picture (at this step you can address coloring in the lines and [...]
Speech vs. Language: What's the Difference? Language is different from speech! Language is made up of socially shared rules that include the following: What words mean (e.g., "star" can refer to a bright object in the night sky or a celebrity) How to make new words (e.g., friend, friendly, unfriendly) How to put [...]
Age-Appropriate Skills for Children with Autism Understanding which skills and behaviors are age-appropriate for autistic children is very important. It helps family members understand which games and toys the kids will enjoy playing with and understanding that, can be significant treatment tool to further physical and mental development. The following information covering age [...]
