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Good news for Florida residents! Your child may be eligible for the Gardiner Scholarship. Also known as the PLSA, Personal Learning Scholarship Account, this NEW financial program is designed to better meet the individual educational and therapeutic needs of Florida children with disabilities, ages 3-22 (or 12th grade.) If your child qualifies for the PLSA, you can purchase […]
To Call or Not To Call? That is the Question! Sometimes I think children should be born with a playbook. Not that the experience of having older children does not count in child rearing. It’s just that each child is different and as a result our response to each one needs to be carefully tailored […]
I recently received an inquiry from a well-meaning dad who was concerned about his son’s overuse of the phrase, “You know.” You know how it goes. We tend to use phrases like “umm” “well like’ and “you know” either out of habit or because we lack the skill and ability to respond quickly. Often, we […]
Though communication begins with babbling, the actual art of articulation involves incredible coordination of many body parts including your tongue, lips, jaws and vocal chords. Try making the sound of the letter B with your tongue in the front of your mouth instead of the back. With a slip of the tongue, you have totally […]
I recently treated an 8-year old child with severe autism who would only “eat” specific food from a specific plate, a sectioned cafeteria-styled one, every single day. I put the word “eat” in quotations because his eating pattern would better be described as inhaling or shoving the food into his mouth with his hands, in […]
It’s all too common for parents to say “I’m not a teacher.” That may be true in the traditional sense. But parents usually know their kids like no one else. “I’m not a teacher when it comes to school,” says mom of two, Blagica Stefanovski Bottigliero. “But I am my child’s life teacher. It’s just […]
If you’re not a native English speaker, coming to the U.S. can be intimidating. Even if you’ve learned English in school, there are lots of odd pronunciations and irregular words that it can seem impossible to manage them all! So how can you make sure that you’re understood in your second language? The answer is […]