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The Silent Language: Why Children Need to Learn Non-Verbal Emotional Signals
The Silent Language: Why Children Need to Learn Non-Verbal Emotional Signals As parents and caregivers, we often focus on teaching children to communicate through words and cognitive activities identifying emotions on the face of a picture. But long before a child can speak, they are engaging in a powerful, non-verbal conversation. This silent language of…
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What are the best ways to be creative with my child and foster pretend play?
Discussion: “Help your child use their ideas functionally and introduce make-believe play; try to keep increasing the interaction,” emphasizes Dr. Greenspan. The world of make-believe is very important: the richer the pretending, the greater the creativity. Don’t bypass the pretending, or else you’ll lose out later on when you’re wondering why the child isn’t being…
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What autism intervention strategies are best for my child? What should I do and not do?
Which autism intervention strategies are best for your child? Here are three things to avoid. Discussion: To help your child relate, communicate, and think, it’s important to create the best intervention program available. There are a number of strategies that your child may respond positively to, but there are also interventions that you should avoid….
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What did Dr. Greenspan really mean when he said, “Follow the Child’s Lead”?
(Stanley Greenspan MD Inc. does not support DIRFloortime or its licensor ICDL) Before we get into what Following a Child’s Lead is and why it is so important, let’s discuss what it IS NOT. IT IS NOT, Ove the years I’ve seen many therapists and parents who have been told that these are elements of…
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What is an ideal educational program
Discussion: School does not mean education. What should an ideal educational program have? You have to look at the school environment in terms of how well it can provide support for the six functional milestones, and then the higher milestones beyond that. How well can an educational setting provide remediation for the different processing areas?…