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Bilateral Coordination Activities

These bilateral coordination activities are bilateral movement strategies to help kids demonstrate bimanual coordination skills.

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Language In Brief

Language is a rule-governed behavior. It is defined as the comprehension and/or use of a spoken (i.e., listening and speaking), written (i.e., reading and writing), and/or other communication symbo...

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Speech Sound Disorders: Articulation and Phonology

The scope of this page is speech sound disorders with no known cause—historically called articulation and phonological disorders—in preschool and school-age children (ages 3–21).

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Speech Sound Errors. The Most Common Speech Errors a Child is Likely to Make.

Speech Sound Errors: Speech production difficulties are the most common form of communication impairment school-based speech pathologists are likely to encounter when working in schools.

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Visual Motor Skills

Here, you find a huge resource on visual motor skills including information, visual motor activities, and tools to support visual motor skill development in kids.   We have shared quite a few posts...

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What to Know About ADLs and IADLS

Here is a basic guide to ADLS (Activities of Daily Living) and IADLS (Instrumental Activities of Daily Living).

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Why Do the Children (Pretend) Play?

Pretend play appears to be an evolved behavior because it is universal and appears on a set schedule. However, no specific functions have been determined for pretend play and empirical tests for it...

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Taking Care of Your Voice: What is Vocal Hygiene?

Vocal Hygiene is a daily regimen of good habits to maintain the health of your vocal folds. These include eliminating inappropriate vocal habits and situations that place unnecessary wear and tear ...

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Activities to Improve Oral Motor Skills

This booklet is to give you ideas and activities to help support your child / young person to improve the awareness and co-ordination of their oral motor skills. Oral motor skills include awaren...

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Pathways to Promoting Self-Regulation: What Can SLPs Do?

Self-regulation is the ability to function at our best in whatever task we are involved in. In the literature, there are many differing opinions of what constitutes self-regulation. For our purpose...

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Handwriting

Handwriting is a complex process of managing written language by coordinating the eyes, arms, hands, pencil grip, letter formation, and body posture. The development of a child's handwriting can pr...

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The Role of Speech-Language Pathologists In Voice Therapy

The inability to use our voices effectively has the potential to have a major impact on personal relationships, careers, and the overall quality of our lives. Although many think that voice therapy...

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Successful Participation At School: Strategies For All Students

School occupational therapy practitioners promote students’ successful and independent participation across school based routines and settings. Through ongoing team collaborations, including those ...

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Encyclopedia of Autism Spectrum Disorders - Vocalization

Vocalizations are sounds produced by children before they learn to talk. For children with ASD, vocalizations may continue to be used throughout the life span, particularly if spoken language does ...

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OT, SLP & AAC

The purpose of this presentation is to discuss what augmentative and/or alternative communication (AAC) is, the OT’s role in supporting clients who use AAC and how to document/write goals related t...

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