Making an App for the Computer Illiterate

When computers began becoming a way of the world, I was home busy watching Barney and changing diapers.  Technology just seemed to pass me by as I was learning every nursery song to sing to my baby girls. Once my daughters were old enough to attend school, I ventured...
A Well Integrated Child is a Well Integrated Universe

A Well Integrated Child is a Well Integrated Universe

  I recently attended the Mocca Arts Fest 2014 in NYC.  While I was there, I had the great pleasure of engaging in one of my favorite past times: People watching!  There were all sorts of people with different ethnic backgrounds, different languages, unique...
Harry Potter…and the Child with Autism

Harry Potter…and the Child with Autism

  As therapists, and moms, and people, one of our goal is to expose our clients, our children, and others to fine literature. My daughter did not enjoy reading AT ALL!  That is until Harry Potter came along!  She loved the movies, and asked to read the first...
6 Basic Areas for Utilizing Oral-Motor Therapy

6 Basic Areas for Utilizing Oral-Motor Therapy

  Oral motor therapy facilitates the movement (range of motion), strength, stability, sustainability, and dissociation of the jaw, lips, and tongue. There are six areas in which oral motor techniques are helpful in facilitating an overall desired outcome: 1....