Sensory processing disorder (SPD) is a condition where a child’s brain has difficulty receiving and responding to information from the senses — sound, touch, taste, movement, and body position — in a typical way. It can make a child over-react ...
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Your child’s cousin was running at 13 months. Your child is 16 months and still cruising along the furniture. A friend’s toddler catches a ball without flinching; yours turns away every time. Is this just a different pace of development, ...
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Struggling to button a shirt. Avoiding drawing or coloring. A pencil grip that looks nothing like a classmate’s. A lot of parents notice these things and assume it’s just clumsiness, or that their child “isn’t interested” in fine motor tasks ...
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Speech therapy works best when it doesn’t stay confined to a weekly session. Children build language through repetition and real-life interaction — which means the twenty minutes in a clinic each week matter far less on their own than what ...
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“Non-verbal” is one of the most misunderstood words in child development. It doesn’t mean a child has nothing to say, or that meaningful communication is out of reach — it means their path to communication doesn’t run primarily through spoken ...
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Parents often use “speech delay” and “language delay” interchangeably — and honestly, most people do, including well-meaning family members offering opinions. But the two are different, and knowing which one you’re actually seeing changes what kind of help is appropriate. ...
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“Every child develops at their own pace” is true — and it’s also the phrase that keeps a lot of parents waiting longer than they should before getting a real answer. If your child isn’t talking as much as their ...
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There’s a specific kind of exhaustion that comes with parenting a child on the autism spectrum — not just the physical demands of therapy schedules and appointments, but the emotional weight of worry, grief, and uncertainty that often goes unspoken. ...
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For many autistic children, it’s not language or social interaction that causes the most day-to-day friction — it’s the everyday physical world. Tags in clothing, loud rooms, tying shoelaces, holding a pencil, sitting still at a desk. These are the ...
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Soon after an autism diagnosis, most parents hear the term “behaviour therapy” — often before anyone explains what it actually involves. It’s one of the most widely used and researched approaches for children on the autism spectrum, but it’s also ...
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