Archive for the ‘Language Delay’ Category

Up For Reading!

Friday, January 25th, 2008

Taken from: www.up-for-reading.org Are you Up for Reading? Up for Reading is a fun and educational sponsored reading event for schools and nurseries. It can be easily integrated within everyday literacy activities. Up for Reading is a ...

To the Dentist/ Doctor’s

Thursday, January 24th, 2008

For children with developmental delays, going to the dentists and the doctor's can be a traumatic experience.  For many, they are afraid of the new situation, new room, and big people talking at them.  They don't understand what is expected or what is supposed to happen.  THEN, if that's not ...

Ask a Question: How many hours of speech therapy has your child received this year?

Friday, November 30th, 2007

I will leave this to the parents to answer this question in the comments below this post. 

Fantastic Anecdote

Thursday, November 29th, 2007

Yesterday, a mother of one of my students with autism told me a fantastic story.  She had left her son, "John" at her sister’s house and was off to get some things done.  A few hours later, there was a knock on the aunts door, and John became exited, 'assuming his mother had ...

Digital Photos Help Special-Needs Children Learn

Tuesday, November 13th, 2007

Digital photos have massive potential in developing the reading and writing skills of children with special needs. For deaf children specifically, new words can be taught by connecting the word to a digital picture. Phonetics challenge many special-needs children, but words can be better understood when connected to pictures. Journals, ...

Guide for age versus grade for purchasing materials and books

Thursday, October 11th, 2007

As many parents of children with disabilities in Ireland have already learned, there aren't many easily accessible materials for purchase here.  Many of us have to turn our heads to the states to get the materials we so desperately need....or we have to make them ourselves with our COPIOUS amounts ...

Materials Website

Thursday, October 11th, 2007

This website was sent to me by a parent of a child on the autistic spectrum who is working on improving auditory processing.  I have used some of this company's materials previously, we even have a few of the DeGaetano books here at the Release centre, and find that they ...

Language Delay

Tuesday, October 2nd, 2007

Language delay is a failure to develop language abilities on the usual developmental timetable. Language delay is distinct from speech delay, in which the speech mechanism itself is the focus of delay. Thus, language delay refers specifically to a delay in the development of the underlying knowledge of language, rather ...