Bilingual Language Development: Separating the Myths from the Facts

by Jennifer Davis | Dec 20, 2021 | Communication

Is your child exposed to more than one language on a regular basis? Many children in the Bay Area are exposed to multiple languages in their daily lives. For the sake of this article I will refer to children spoken to in one language as “monolingual” and children...

Why is routine important for a child and how to create one

by Jennifer Davis | Aug 17, 2020 | Communication, Parenting

Bedtime tantrums are very common in most homes. Children don’t want to sleep. They also don’t want to sit down for lunch or take a bath. When it comes to getting kids to do anything, you often have to wage mini-wars. The Solution? Routine. Believe me, kids...

Listening Larry Book Helps Children With Autism With Whole Body Listening

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...

Facilitating Better Communication and Story Recall With Your Child Through Reading The Book, The Snowy Day

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...