Time is an elusive skill for Kayla as she struggles with developing her executive functioning skills. As a baby she had to learn to understand different cycles of sleep and wake as well as night and day. She struggles with impulsivity and finds it difficult to wait for someone to…
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Developmental Disorders
To Be Able to Execute Planful Behavior: Part 1
How to understand what it means to become organized This writing is the first in a series of writings that is going to focus on executive behavior. This is the kind of behavior we would all like to see in our children; and ourselves, to have a goal, to plan…
Do not sink the Titanic! Navigating the developmental waters for your child
The ship was full and many things were happening. Lives were connecting and the journey was on its way. The captain was steering the ship when he noticed the tip of the iceberg in his path. He did attempt to mobilize the ship around this mound of ice and felt…
Social Adaptive Response
For this blog I requested the Speech Language Pathologist at our office to support us. She can be reached via my e-mail at maude@atotalapproach.com As a parent of two middle schoolers I am frequently finding myself in the midst of conversations about “the populars” and “the wierdos” and…
Language and Motor Skill Development go side by side
How do we know what children hear? How are they listening to our language? How do we know they are not responding due to not being able to sequence and use language in the right order, or not being able to plan a motor sequence? These are interesting questions, are…