As the summer draws to a close, and the new school year is ready to begin, choosing a preschool that meets your child's needs can be a stressful challenge. When...
As an occupational therapist who has worked with children in a variety of school settings for most of my 18 year career, I can tell you definitively that YES! handwriting...
As a young child, you probably have memories of a parent or grandparent reading a collection of stories aloud before bed. However, in most cases once you were able to...
In part 1 of Teaching Through Story, we talked about how stories can teach basic information such as vocabulary development, categories, and sequencing, but stories are also great ways to...
Language is an important part of everyday communication. No matter your child's age, whether they are an infant or ten years old, their language is continually developing. Encouraging language development...
Reading to your child is a wonderful thing. Not only does it help with listening and comprehension skills, along with so many other academic benefits—it can be just plain fun! But...
In a world of constantly improving technology, we are sometimes becoming less reliant on our own skills. A perfect example is our growing reliance on typing and voice recording, over...
Schools don’t seem to hand out grades for penmanship often anymore, and with all the advances in technology available to children, it may look like handwriting is a lost art....
We know that reading aloud to children helps strengthen language and reading skills. We know it can help erase the developmental delays associated with audiological disorders. We know it sets...
Dialogic Reading Enhances Language Skills In Preschoolers “turn ‘Cat in the Hat’ into reading readiness with this easy method” Reading readiness is a big concern for most parents of preschoolers, but kids...