This list includes our most requested topics for Parents . A major part of life is communication. The ability to express needs, wants, emotions and words through speech and sign language greatly impacts your child's development in all areas of growth. This session addresses appropriate milestones, how to facilitate language, warning signs to watch for, articulation vs. language acquisition, receptiveness, expression and imitative language, anatomy of language, and the postural and oral motor control required for effective speech. Obviously, everything related to nutrition and eating makes a major difference in you and your child's life.
Food is a basic requirement.
When eating is difficult for your child, for whatever reason, many other emotional and developmental issues are impacted. We address such things as oral motor skills, slow weight gain requiring calorie boosters, constipation, tube feeding and reaching the decision when tube feeding is necessary, progression from finger foods to spoon feeding, increasing textures and progressing to solid food, progression from bottle to cup drinking, the motor components and postural control needed for feeding are all covered. Your Child's Development and the Importance of Play Typical children develop at different rates. Including the muscle groups - skill acquisition in both large and small muscles And coordination and the importance of visual perceptual development. Plus cognitive, or the way a child solves the problems of their world.