A Parent’s Perspective: Summer Planning
Something not often discussed is how to transition your child to summer and all its activities. These transitions can be very difficult for our children and consequently on our families…
Being the Expert on Your Child- Anticipating Emotions and Planning for that
Graduation for her brother, Michael Emily, her beloved sister is home on vacation. Elizabeth has her new summer schedule (Her work with the schools change into a summer schedule) Pick…
Accepting Change & Embracing Growth Together!
What She Loved, She May Not Love So Much Anymore… I used to feel bad but I am teaching myself that I don’t need to. I used to think why…
A Parent’s Perspective: The Transition from School to Summer
My beautiful Elizbeth is 26 years old, soon to be 27. We have been navigating the therapy world for over 25 years and truthfully, we are still making sure that…
5 STAR Global Ministry’s Work In Haiti with TalkTools
My name is Autumn Marshall and I am the president and co-founder of 5 STAR Global Ministry. I have been serving in Haiti since 2007, and living full-time in Haiti…
Ask a Therapist: Targeting Hyposensitivity in the Mouth for Speech Production and Open-Mouth Posture
Hello, I am a speech pathologist working with children, and I have attended some of the Talktools workshops in recent years. I currently have a 7:6 years old child who…
A Parent’s Perspective: Navigating the Therapy World
Elizabeth has been in therapy since she was 2.5 years old. She is now 26. This means that she has been in some form of therapy for over 23 years.…
Timing is Everything: Planning a Trip and When to Tell Elizabeth
So how do we handle or decide how to tell Elizabeth something that might be stressful to her? Timing is everything! I will let you know what we have done…
Finding Good Among the Bad
At home life with Anna has been quite interesting. It’s been a bit difficult because of course, she has no clue why we can’t go outside anymore. She has no…
Grateful for My Decision
It was an emotional, yet joyful month of July as Anna celebrated her golden birthday in quarantine turning five on July 5th. Around her birthday, I always flashback to the…