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Language and Thinking Skills for Children with Speech and Language Delay
From young, language and thinking skills play a very important role in our daily life experiences. We need to use language and think creatively and critically to solve problems, assess the consequences...
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How can we help children having anxiety in the classroom?
Welcome back to a brand new year of our HeadStart for Life blog, Beyond Therapy! It’s that time of the year again! Christmas and New Year celebrations behind us and it’s time to embrace the year ahead....
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Dealing with Verbal Dyspraxia
Previously, we provided an overview of verbal dyspraxia or childhood apraxia of speech. We hope that you were able to gain some useful information regarding this motor speech concern. If you have...
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Emotion and Connection
Happy Chinese New Year! Gong Xi Fa Cai! It is a happy time of the year with the festivities now! But have you ever wondered why we feel what we feel? Why we do what we do? Same questions apply when we...
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Getting the most out of your toys: Part 1
Hello everyone! Welcome to our new series on getting the most out of your toys! Often, parents have told me that they don’t really know how to use the toys at home to play in a variety of ways. In this...
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Your Child’s Attention and Language Skills
“Are you listening?” “Are you paying attention?” “Remember what I said?” How many times have we asked this question to our children? 5? 20? 50? 100? We may have used this question more than we...
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Active or Hyperactive Child
Background Dashing off on the street; bouncing on the bed; climbing up the furniture, these all looked like elements of typical children’s play. However, the look of concern on the parents’ faces...
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AT (Assistive Technology) in Art
“What a computer is to me is the most remarkable tool that we have ever come up with. It’s the equivalent of a bicycle for our minds.” — Steve Jobs I couldn’t agree more with these words stated by...
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What are Speech Sound Disorders?
Most of us must have heard at one time or other a friend’s child saying “tar” instead of ‘car’ or a child on the bus saying “that car yewo”. And what about Tweety Bird saying “I thought I taw a putty...
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Integrating Sensory Procesing Approach and Behaviour Management
At HeadStart, we have seen parents who know if their child has sensory processing difficulty, thus behaviour problems are inevitable. However, not every behaviour problem is a result of sensory...
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Echolalia: Parroting Words without Communicating
Hello! We love seeing you back here at HeadStart for Life’s Beyond Therapy blog! Today we are going to talk about Echolalia. What’s that? Please read on! Imitation plays a strong part in our growth and...
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Let’s do role play!
Hi there! Welcome back to HeadStart for Life’s blog – Beyond Therapy! Today we’ll be discussing… Role Play! Role play is a term used to describe a kind of play where a person acts as if he or she is...
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Gesturing: Its Importance For Language Development
“When will my child begin to talk?” This is a question speech-language pathologists are frequently asked by parents. In response to this question, I ask the question: “Is your child gesturing?” A...
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Getting the most out of your toys: Part 2
Hello everyone! Welcome back to HeadStart for Life’s blog! Previously, I discussed several ways in which we can use a toy that most of us will be very familiar with to support various aspects of your...
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Fun Ways to Work with Your Child’s Speech – Part I
“My child just won’t sit still and say the sounds that I want him to. It’s so hard.” Does this resonate with you? I often hear this feedback from the parents of children whom I work with. How many...
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Starter Activities for the Budding Reader
…When a child has the chance to hear one good story after another, day after day, he is being taught to read. – James Hymes Welcome back to Beyond Therapy, HeadStart for Life’s blog! Today’s blog...
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Let’s Talk About Group Play Therapy
Hi there! Welcome back to HeadStart for Life’s blog, Beyond Therapy! Play Therapy is usually done individually but today we wanted to discuss Group Play Therapy. What is Group Play Therapy? The Group...
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What do we know about Executive Functioning?
Hey there readers! Great to see you back at HeadStart for Life’s blog, Beyond Therapy! This time we are going to talk about Executive Functioning. Have you ever gone on a road trip without a map? No...
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Picture This! – Things You Need to Know About Comprehension and Visualisation
“If I can’t picture it, I can’t understand it” -Albert Einstein Hello! Welcome back to HeadStart for Life’s blog, Beyond Therapy! Have you ever wondered why do some children struggle to read , spell...
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Using PECS for Children with Persisting Speech Difficulties
As a Speech and Language Therapist, I have used PECS (PICTURE EXCHANGE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM) on many occasions with my students in HeadStart for Life. I did have some resistance to it as parents...
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