Having good social skills is a big factor in someone’s success at school and at work. Social skills help us to build rapport, make jokes and share experiences. They help us to identify when to take a step back if we have said something inappropriate or to offer sympathy to someone who is upset. Individuals …
Strategies to Teaching Children with Autism for Enhancing Joint Attention Skills Joint attention involves two individuals attending an event or object with the purpose of sharing an interaction.An onset predictor of autism in children is the difficulty with establishing and maintaining joint attention abilities. Joint attention involves using gestures, eye contact, or other forms of …
Developing your child’s expressive language in the early years Sometimes as adults we forgot that children’s language is not fully developed, in fact is our language ever fully developed? Most adults are hearing and learning new words all the time. We can often forget that learning a language is difficult, think back to your high …
The terms stammering, stuttering and dysfluency are interchangeably used to mean the same thing, disruption in fluent speech. While there are many theories about stammering the cause and nature is not well understood. Therapist are instead more focused on the therapy approaches that can support a child who stammers. The Lidcombe Program is an effective …
