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Holiday Meals and Families with Special Needs
Parents of children with special needs often find themselves feeling pressured to explain or apologize for their child's behavior around the holiday dinner table. Maybe your child is a picky eater or prone to outbursts....
Therapies > Play
Fun and Therapeutic Water Play in Your Own Backyard or Neighborhood Pool
...By adding some well-planned activities and games to your child’s summer routine, you can increase muscle strength, endurance, balance, and work on social...variety you can find in the shape and texture, the more different tactile (feeling) experiences...
Education > Early Intervention
How Play Helps Your Child's Brain, Part 1
...Because the reptilian brain learns best with rhythm, routine, repetition and ritual, play activities such as...the beat of a song. For your child, repetition, routine, and rituals create a feeling of warmth and security,...child, repetition, routine, and rituals create a feeling of warmth and security, which quiets the reptilian...
Education > Early Intervention
Activities for Kids: Rhythm and Movement
...adolescents might benefit from a dance to their favorite song. Rhythm Feeling a strong pulse is important for children, and enhancing movement activities...instrument to the beat to reinforce that rhythm. Rhythms also help establish routines, and...
Education > Early Intervention
Understanding Early Intervention Therapies: Speech, Occupational, and Physical Therapy for Infants and Toddlers
...obvious at first. A speech therapist might work on feeding. An occupational therapist might focus on play....early intervention focuses on communication and feeding, not just talking. If your child isn't babbling...understanding questions, recognizing familiar words Feeding and swallowing: latching, moving food from front...
Therapies > Speech
Speech Therapy for Special Needs Children: A Complete Guide for Parents
...widening. At some point, waiting becomes its own problem. Speech therapy can address articulation, language comprehension, social communication, and feeding or swallowing issues. But knowing when to seek an evaluation, what the process involves, and how to make therapy work requires understanding what speech-language...
Special Needs > Speech and Communication Impairments
What Speech-Language Pathologists Actually Do: A Guide for Special Needs Families
...speech-language pathologists work on a far broader range of skills than pronunciation. They evaluate and treat language comprehension, social communication, feeding and swallowing, voice disorders, stuttering, and alternative communication systems for children who don't use speech at all. Understanding that scope...
Special Needs > Down Syndrome
Your Early Intervention Roadmap for Down Syndrome: Therapy Options from Birth to Age Three
...low muscle tone present in nearly all children with DS. PT targets gross motor skills: rolling, sitting, standing, walking. Speech therapy addresses feeding, oral motor development, and later, language. OT focuses on fine motor skills, sensory processing, and self-care tasks like holding a spoon or transitioning...
Research > Clinical Trials
Why Children with Disabilities Are Underrepresented in Clinical Trials
...because they introduce variables that complicate data collection. A child with autism who also has epilepsy. A child with cerebral palsy who also has a feeding tube. These children represent the majority of the population living with these conditions, not edge cases. But trials exclude them because including...
Medical > Pediatrics
When Your Pediatrician Isn't Enough: Building a Medical Home for Complex Needs
...that fall between specialties. When the pulmonologist recommends a new breathing treatment and you're not sure how it interacts with your child's feeding schedule, the medical home provider knows both plans and can guide you. For children with medical complexity, care coordination isn't optional. This...
Medical > Gastroenterology
Tube Feeding at Home: A Parent's Guide to Preventing and Managing G-Tube Complications
...managing care at home. It's the reality of tube feeding. The tube is a foreign object passing through the...Some of these you can manage with adjustments to feeding protocol. Some require medical intervention. And...tube feeds are common. The usual culprits are feeding rate, formula temperature, or positioning. If you're...
Medical > Gastroenterology
When Picky Eating Signals a Medical Problem: Distinguishing ARFID and GI Disorders in Special Needs Children
...autism-related selectivity. They recommend more feeding therapy. You've tried. It's not working....and 40 percent of all children have feeding disorders. That number rises to 80...special needs children. But not all feeding refusal is the same. Some of it is...dependence on oral supplements or tube feeding, or marked interference with social...