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10 Ways to Motivate Your Child to Learn
Fill your child’s world with reading.Encourage him to express his opinion, talking about his feelings, and make choices. Show enthusiasm for your child’s interests and encourage her to explore subjects that fascinate her. Provide him with play opportunities that support different types of learning styles – from listening and visual learning to sorting and sequencing.Point…
Read MoreHow to Detect Communication Disorders in Children
Click here to read the article “Parents Advised on How to Detect Communication Disorders in Their Children” by the America Speech-Language-Hearing Association.
Read MoreSpeech and Language of the Four-Year-Old
At age four, your child… points to colors red, blue, yellow, and green. identifies crosses, triangles, circles, and squares. follows commands even though objects not present. understands “early in the morning,” “next month,” “next year,” and “noontime.” can speak of imaginary conditions such as “suppose that” or “I hope.” asks many questions although more interested…
Read MoreSpeech & Language of the Three-Year-Old
At age three, your child…. can match primary colors, and name one color. knows night and day. understands “yesterday,” “summer,” “lunchtime,” “tonight,” and “little-big.” begins to obey prepositional phrases like, “put the block under the chair.” uses words to relate observations, concepts, ideas, and relationships. frequently practices by talking to himself. knows his or her…
Read MoreSpeech and Language of the 2 1/2 Year Old
At age 2 1/2 your child… has a 250 word vocabulary gives first name uses past tense and plurals and combines nouns and verbs understands simple time concepts: “last night,” “tomorrow” refers to self as “me” rather than by name tries to get adult attention: “watch me” likes to hear same story repeated uses “no”…
Read MorePicture This: Symbols & Signs
The practice below will help your child recognize people, objects, and actions in pictures. Using pictures as part of everyday activities will make it easy for a child to tell you he/she notices things. This practice uses pictures of people and things a young child is familiar with to communicate recognition. Take diaper changing for example.…
Read MoreWe specialize in Cleft lip & palate
Cleft lip and palate are birth defects that occur during the first 3 months of pregnancy when parts of the lip or palate do not completely fuse together. A cleft lip is an opening in the lip and a cleft palate is an opening in the roof of the mouth. While speech problems are common…
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