by Jennifer Davis | Dec 29, 2021 | Communication, Developmental Delay
Do you have concerns about your child’s ability to take turns in play with you and others? Does your child tend to prefer to play alone without engaging with others? If you can relate to these concerns, you are not alone. Often parents’ primary concern when initiating...
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...
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...
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...
