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Here is a shortlist of children’s Valentine books

Sessions have a beginning, middle, and end. Often, a session begins by reviewing home practice items and discussing any updates since the previous session. The session shifts into activities selected based upon the child’s goals and …

Welcome back to the last gift guide of our series! Today’s gift guide focuses on games for school-aged children. By this age, children are expected to ask and answer all wh-questions, use grammatically correct sentences, follow multi-step directions and be 100% intelligible. Overall, children should sound like “mini” adults!

Today’s gift guide is all about preschoolers! At this age, children will begin saying more complex sentences filled with spatial concepts, adjectives, and a variety of verbs and pronouns. Preschoolers begin to understand figures of speech and follow more than 2 step directions.

Today’s blog post features our 2-3-year-old gift guide. Another huge language growth occurs during this period of life. At 2, toddlers should be around 50% intelligible, adding new words frequently to their vocabulary, and combining words together.

We are back for our second gift guide of the series! Today’s gift guide focuses on recommendations for 1-2 year olds, a period that is filled with language growth! Around one, babies may have a couple of words.

The featured items encourage cognitive development, fine motor skills, social pragmatic skills, feeding development and expressive and receptive language skills. And notice- about 95% of the items do not require a battery 

One of the things that OWLS Therapy is known for is our treatment of dyslexia.Dyslexia has always been a passion of mine probably due to the fact that I love to read,and I can’t imagine not loving to read. When people say that they don’t like to curl up with a good book on a rainy cold day, I probably look at them like they havetwo heads!

We have had many blog posts recently giving the facts and research statistics about language development. But before everything starts to feel doom and gloom, know that there are very easy ways to help facilitate language development!

One of the questions that I spend the most time answering is how many words should a child have by a certain age. From these conversations, I have gleamed that it is fairly common knowledge among parents that by a child’s first birthday, they should have a least one word.