Tag: ORAL STIMULATION
Elizabeth's Journey
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!…
Annabelle's Progress
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…
Elizabeth's Journey
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…
Elizabeth's Journey
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…
Elizabeth's Journey
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…
Ask A Therapist
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…