Floortime play therapy based on the DIR model promotes overall skills with activities. Floortime play therapy aids in the development of emotional connections and communication skills in children with autism.
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If you have a child with autism, you know your child has different sensory needs about social language in school and daily life. Autistic children typically have low muscle tone and require strengthening interventions to help them reach their
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Speech therapy uses strategies and exercises to address delays and problems in expressive/receptive language, articulation, oral motor dysfunction, apraxia of speech, social language, fluency (stuttering), feeding and swallowing, and
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Feeding therapy is helpful and strongly recommended if your child is having trouble with breast or bottle feeding, or eating solid foods, or if your baby seems to be a picky eater. These scenarios are most common with children that have special
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Once your child is diagnosed with autism, the first thing you are likely to do is consult a pediatrician to look for answers on how to help. Parents tend to look for as much information as they can get their hands-on in regards to what the best plan of action
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Early intervention is key to preventing and addressing developmental delays. Motor development forms the basis of so many functional skills, the sooner we address the sooner we will succeed. So much is happening in an infant’s brain during
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Language delay in children manifests their communication disorders. When it continues, they tend to miss out on achieving developmental milestones that eventually impact their social interactions, behavior, and academic skills.
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Developmental difficulties in children are better called neurodevelopmental disorders. Those neurologically based conditions, such as speech and language disorders, intellectual disabilities, autism spectrum disorder, etc.
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From the first few days of life, the speech, language, and communication skills of a child start to develop. Children learn to communicate with the adults in their environment before they have developed
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Early intervention is key to preventing and addressing developmental delays or disabilities in children. It helps keep these children on track to make the most of abilities and skills developed during the
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The Universal Exercise Unit (UEU) known as Spider Cage is a 3-sided wire cage with a set of flexible ropes used by pediatric physiotherapists. It is a valuable tool that we utilize at Hope AMC for so many purposes and benefits.
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Today was the push chair/ special stroller/ adaptive seat fitting of my daughter. However, what you want to call it is still a pediatric wheelchair. It is more painful than you can imagine. After all, a wheelchair is a sign of disability.
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Intensive therapy differs tremendously from long term pediatric therapy in many aspects. It is not just a more intense form of therapy (daily and for longer hours).
It differs completely
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A correctly setup pediatric medical center or a pediatric therapy center needs to have the various approaches f all pediatric physiotherapy
I must admit that I recoiled a little when I typed out that title. When it comes to parenting, I feel that every parent is perfect and does the best to get the best for their own children. And each child being so
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Muscular dystrophy is a disorder of the musculoskeletal system that is characterized by progressive weakness and atrophy of varying severity of various muscle groups. This disorder has many
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If your child continues W-sitting and is struggling to maintain any other position, it may be beneficial to have your child evaluated by an pediatric occupational therapy specialist to make sure w-sitting
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Living with cerebral palsy is challenging. This is a debilitating disorder that affects mobility. However, this state of the disorder can be improved, motion can be maintained and pain can be decreased by
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There are many health conditions that require the use of orthosis. Those can be foot pronation, foot supination, leg and foot spasticity, hip dysplasia, foot and ankle malalignment, severe metatarsus
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Many often a child hears like “oh, you speak so slowly” or “maybe, you are habitual nervous.” These are heard so often, so frequently that they become so cliche! Parents and family members of a child
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