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Elizabeth: Our Summer Speech Therapy Schedule

So many parents, at this time of year, find themselves throwing out old notebooks, half used crayons, semi-dried-out markers, ripped folders all with the excited feeling that it is summer! Time to just relax. Right? Well, if you have a child with special needs, that time of sheer freedom does not arrive in quite the […]

14 MONTHS: VIDEO UPDATES!

Watch the following videos to see Annabelle’s exceptional progress in her therapy! Working on Straw #2: Eating table food: Working on oral motor exercises: -Lanie Beetsma Annabelle has Down Syndrome and has been using TalkTools Therapy since she was born. Her story is a great inspiration for parents seeking help for a child with Down Syndrome. […]

THE BEST GIFT FROM ELIZABETH

As our journey continued, I was able to revisit the “to do” category of a preschool for Elizabeth.  We initially had tried a preschool in our area that had half typical developing children and half special needs children attending.   We had thought it would be a nice fit for Elizabeth as she would get OT […]

SEEING THE TREES IN THE FOREST: ELIZABETH GROWS BEYOND EXPECTATIONS

I can remember that I was living so deeply “in the forest” this year that I did not “see the trees” I was so deep in concentrating on Elizabeth’s sensory needs, her therapies and their follow-ups at home as well as our older daughter’s needs and well…LIFE that I don’t think I looked up to […]

IT’S NOT A SPRINT, IT’S A MARATHON: ELIZABETH BEGINS THERAPY

The words did start to come but they were words that required a great deal of work to understand or as in the case of many, they required me to translate. I remember how it was to automatically have the person to whom Elizabeth was speaking turn to look at me as if to say […]

Ask A Therapist: Sensory Feeding for an Infant with Medical Issues

Dear Lori, I attended the Sensory Feeding Course in England in June, and would like to thank you for a full two days of professional input.  Before I left Manchester, I had already thought of how I was going to utilize some of the techniques in my therapy sessions. You had mentioned that you would not mind […]