Is Your Child’s Curriculum Brain Compatible? Choosing a curriculum that is a good fit for your child is an important and also an overwhelming task. Whatever the choice may be what’s important is to check if the curriculum or the way it is taught in the school is ‘brain compatible’? In other words, does it …
What does Sequencing mean? Sequencing is an important skill in children and this article holds key tips to improve verbal language sequencing skill in children. Sequencing is the process of combining things in a particular order; a following of one thing after another. In the context of speech and language, sequencing refers to a skill that …
What is Tube Feeding? Tube feeding Is generally involves delivering a liquid feed through the nose (nasal tube) or stomach (gastrostomy tube). Feed types include expressed breast milk, infant formula or a specialised liquid feed. Key points to remember It helps your child to meet their nutritional needs when they are not able to eat …
My Spinning, Running, Anxious Child, Is it a Sensory Processing Disorder? We all have a sensory processing system. It means all our five senses (hearing, touch, taste, smell and vision) receive information from the environment around us and transmit this information to the brain to make sense of it. There are two additional hidden senses …
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Bedtime Talk : Building Your Child’s Creative Language Building Your Child’s Creative Language, We all know that having routines for the day can be very helpful for your child to predict, plan and communicate more effectively. Finding opportunities to talk with your child is crucial for his language development. Be it the morning rush hour …
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Daily Routine Activities To Help Your Child Talk In Sentences Daily Routine Activities for child speech – Language learning happens at all the time during the daily activities. As a parent, you need to give more and more opportunities for the child to use longer and longer sentences. Here are some of the examples as …
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Involving children in household chores gives them opportunity to become active participant in the house. Kids begin to see themselves as important contributors to the family. Holding children accountable for their chores can increase a sense of themselves as responsible and actually make them more responsible.
Sentence Building in Children Aged Below 5 Years Q. When does sentence building in children start? A child as young as 1.5 years can speak in a meaningful sentence using 2 words (Eg: My doll). As in when a child develops more vocabulary, she/he will start using longer and longer sentences. We can measure sentence …
Create VERBAL ROUTINES and get your toddler talking! VERBAL ROUTINES consist of words that are repeated at a predictable time during an activity. A verbal routine occurs any time a person says the same words, in the same way, for the same things, every time a specific activity occurs. Introducing Verbal routines in your daily …
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7 Ways of Helping Children who are Reluctant Talkers The term ‘reluctant talker’ is broadly used to describe children who may be selectively mute in situations outside home due to anxiety, shyness and lack of confidence. It may co-occur with developmental language disorders or delays in language development. Why are some children reluctant talkers? 1. …
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