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Early Detection is Key – Support for Children with Autism

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During the first years of your child’s life, it is important to watch and listen closely as your child interacts with you and others. You can pick up clues to potential developmental disabilities and seek assistance early. Autism or Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is a lifelong developmental disability often linked to challenges with communication skills. ASD affects the way your child’s brain processes information and how the brain’s nerve cells connect and organize. ASD affects … Read more

10 Ways to Encourage Your Preschooler to Read

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By Louise Baigelman via Understood Use these strategies to help make reading familiar and fun for your preschooler. These tips can also help kids who learn and think differently start to work on the basic skills they need to become readers. 1. Read stories to your child. Try to read together every day. Make this a special one-on-one time that your child can look forward to. Curl up together in a cozy chair or designate a … Read more

Toys & Activities For Creative Thinking & Imagination for Ages 0-2

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Help foster your child’s creativity and imagination with these fun toy activities. by Michelle Anthony, PhD via Scholastic Open-ended toys: These are toys that can be played without an end goal in mind, encouraging creative problem solving and fostering imagination. Blocks: Foster thinking such as measurement, equality, balance, shape, spatial relationships, cause-and-effect, physical properties, gravity, etc. Think of many different kinds: wooden, bristle, Duplo®, etc. Magnetic and foam blocks are particularly good for younger infants, … Read more

10 Motivating Phrases to Praise Your Child’s Efforts and Achievements

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Common parenting wisdom says that we should lavish kids with praise whenever they behave well or do something good—the presumption being that praise makes kids feel good, and when they feel good, they behave better. While the latter half of this theory is undoubtedly true, behavior is linked very strongly to emotion and, unfortunately, most praise doesn’t make kids feel good or motivated. “Praise, like penicillin, must not be administered haphazardly. There are rules and cautions … Read more

Tummy Time – What You Need to Know

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What is Tummy Time? Tummy Time is one of baby’s first exercises—and the most important! Tummy Time is the period during the day your baby spends awake and on their stomach. It is a crucial exercise for baby’s motor, visual, and sensory development. Baby can begin Tummy Time as a newborn. They can continue to do Tummy Time throughout their first year. Tummy Time: Know the Basics Why does my baby need Tummy Time? To … Read more