by Jennifer Davis | Feb 11, 2018 | Books, Communication, Parenting, Pediatric Therapy, Sensory Processing, Whole Body Listening
Do you find yourself frustrated when trying to get your child with autism to listen to you? Whole body listening is a key tool that parents like you can use to help your child learn the basic expectations for appropriate communication behaviors. The book Whole Body...
by Jennifer Davis | Feb 5, 2018 | Books, Communication, Pediatric Occupational Therapy, Pediatric Therapy, Speech Therapy, Story Recall
The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats is a wonderful book to read-aloud to your child to help with communication skills like story recall and phonetics. The story structure has lots of repeating P words which is a good first letter for parents to overemphasize. This...
by Jennifer Davis | Jan 31, 2018 | Developmental Delay, Feeding, Fine Motor Activities, Manipulation, Occupational Therapy, Occupational Therapy Ideas, Parenting, Pediatric Occupational Therapy, Pediatric Therapy, Sensory Processing, Special Education, visual perceptual skills
If you have a picky eater with autism, please know that you are not alone. Do you struggle to get them to eat the food you cook? Do you find yourself getting frustrated at the approaches you take that don’t seem to be helping? Food aversion is very common. It’s...
by Jennifer Davis | Oct 18, 2017 | Parenting
It’s Halloween time again! With other parents you watch a crowd of little monsters, mermaids, and pirates running from porch to porch yelling, “Trick-or-treat!” and collecting sweets. But Halloween brings a problem that you didn’t know you had: Trick or treating can...
by Jennifer Davis | Sep 6, 2017 | Pediatric Therapy
Sensory play is so important in a child’s life. It allows the child to learn through play but also gives them a better sense of touch, smell, taste, and smell. There are many activities you can do with your child who has Cerebral Palsy. I always say to never treat...
