Music Enhancing Your Child’s Brain?
A new meta-analysis of gold-standard, randomized controlled trials has found there are reliable ways to boost a child’s IQ by age 5. John Protzko, a doctoral candidate in psychology at New York University, authored the study published in Perspectives of Psychological Science. Over the next few weeks we’ll feature his findings as ways for you…
How We Engage With Our Children Matters
Researchers long have evaluated the roles parents play in children’s development. Now, researchers at the University of Missouri have found that mothers’ directiveness, the extent to which they try to control the content and pace of young children’s play, varies based on the children’s ages and the mothers’ ethnicities in the study, “Patterns of Maternal…
Together we are stronger!
ESHC operates under the guiding principles of Collaboration and a personalized and customized plan of care for every patient and family. Collaborating with families to design a customized treatment plan is what we strive for every day. Through our years of experience we have learned that the more our clients and caregivers understand about their, or their…
Picture Books About Love
This Valentine’s day help your child learn about love and friendship with a list of picture books compiled by blogger Alison McDonald of No Time for Flashcards. In the post she selects her top 14 picture books about all kinds of love: romantic, platonic and lots of love found in families. Thanks Alison for this great list, and happy…
“L” is for Language and Love
We ran into a wonderful and brave post on the blog Birds, Bees and Bloom called “‘L’ is for Language and Love” that shares a mothers journey in learning to communicate with her deaf child. Her story began 24 years ago before baby sign language was mainstream before youtube had sign language tutorials and before…
Little-One Fun at Your Local Library
If your family is getting “house-buggy” this winter and you are searching for something to do with the kids, look no further than your local library. Events such as Super Saturdays and Move & Groove Story Time provide great opportunities to expose young children and children with special needs to book reading, music, and peers. …
A Look at Literacy
This December, I completed a continuing education course presented by Vicki Reed, Ed. D., CCC-SLP, BRS-CL, which discussed literacy, the many skills involved, and its importance in academic success. Reed defined literacy as “more than basic reading and writing,” as it requires the ability to think about language. Literacy entails higher level skills, such as…
Autism Friendly Theater
Another Christmas has come and gone, but there was one story this holiday season that gave us that holiday feel good feeling! The Old Globe Theatre in San Diego created a special rendition of “Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas!,” geared toward people with autism and their families. The performance, one of the first…
Countdown to Christmas
Earlier in the week we saw an amazing post by Dr. explaining how her and her children count down the days to Christmas. The mother of two, and pediatric psychologist, put a creative and educational spin on the Christmas countdown by having her children open and read a holiday themed book a day! We love…
A Time for Teamwork
This Fall, I had the invaluable opportunity to work on a project with our Clinic Director of Ruth Norwood to improve the teamwork at ESHC. Initially, the purpose of this project was to uncover strategies for incorporating teamwork into our speech team’s project planning and program development. As Ruth and I met and researched these topics,…