Have You Considered How a Dog Could Enhance Your Child’s Life?
After extensive training, Mia, a beautiful black, Labrador Retriever, came to live with us as a guide dog when she was eighteen months old. Though I had always wanted a...
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MOTORING through MEALTIME
Mealtime presents many opportunities for a variety of sensory and motor skills to be developed also! A lot of kiddos with special needs struggle with “picky eating” or “problem feeding”...
Our Experience with Therapeutic Listening as Autism Therapy
When I first heard about therapeutic listening, I was very dubious. I didn’t understand how wearing headphones and listening to weird sounds was going to do anything except seriously tick Billy off
Wee Hands in the Garden
In my classes and parent presentations, I talk a lot about narrating your children’s day and labeling sensory experiences. Now if playing in the garden isn’t a sensory experience I don’t know what is
Hyperbaric Oxygen Treatment
Hyperbaric Oxygen Treatment is not a new process; it has been around for years in the treatment of many different conditions. Some of the conditions that have been treated previously include
Horse Power of a Different Variety
Since the dawning of man, the horse and man have been linked together for the greater
P.i.N.C.H. Therapy
Speech is an important part of communication. To be effective, speech needs to be intelligible. One of the factors that can impair intelligibility is
Playing the Waiting Game
“Always be prepared” are definitely words to live by when you are a parent. It makes life..
Road Trip – Are we there yet?
All children spend their fair share of time riding around in a car, on their way to and from school or to the mall or grocery store. Good news though
