Welcome back to Beyond Therapy, HeadStart For Life’s blog! This week, we will be discussing joint attention, or how we learn to talk with our eyes, and why it is a topic that is important enough to
5 years ago by Natalie 2 minutes
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“In life, it is more important to ask the right questions than to find the right answers.” Welcome back to Headstart For Life’s Blog, Beyond Therapy! An important mentor in my life share
5 years ago by Danica 2 minutes
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Welcome back Headstart readers! We are all familiar with the “tip-of-the-tongue” phenomenon: it’s that frustrating feeling you get when you’re in the middle of a conversation
6 years ago by Natalie 2 minutes
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Hi there! Welcome back to Beyond Therapy! The blog for HeadStart for Life! Language contributes a lot to a child’s ability to engage comfortably and confidently in various social settings (school, h
6 years ago by Anna 2 minutes
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Social Skills Training,Speech Therapy
Welcome back to HeadStart For Life’s Blog, Beyond Therapy! In my previous post, we talked about the different types of stories that children tell, and a variety of strategies we can use to help th
6 years ago by Danica 2 minutes
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Hi friends! I am back with another HeadStart blog related to numeracy skills for our budding mathematicians! Today I will be discussing about the need for comparative thinking skills in early numeracy
6 years ago by Kokila 2 minutes
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Hi everyone! Welcome back to Beyond Therapy – HeadStart for Life’s blog! We hope that our blog posts have been informative in helping you understand your child’s development. In our
6 years ago by Jia Yue 2 minutes
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Welcome back to our blog, Beyond Therapy! My baby boy reached his one-year-old milestone last month! Instead of the happy baby I thought he would grow to be, he has grown in other ways. He has grown t
7 years ago by Jessica 2 minutes
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School Readiness Programme,Speech Therapy
“If I can’t picture it, I can’t understand it” -Albert Einstein Hello! Welcome back to HeadStart for Life’s blog, Beyond Therapy! Have you ever wondered why do some child
7 years ago by Kokila 2 minutes
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Social Skills Training,Speech Therapy
Hello everyone! Welcome back to HeadStart for Life’s blog! Previously, I discussed several ways in which we can use a toy that most of us will be very familiar with to support various aspects of
7 years ago by Jia Yue 2 minutes
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Hello! We love seeing you back here at HeadStart for Life’s Beyond Therapy blog! Today we are going to talk about Echolalia. What’s that? Please read on! Imitation plays a strong part in o
7 years ago by Anna 2 minutes
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From young, language and thinking skills play a very important role in our daily life experiences. We need to use language and think creatively and critically to solve problems, assess the consequence
8 years ago by Zunaida 2 minutes
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Social Skills Training,Speech Therapy
Children with special needs almost always have issues in their play. During initial assessment in speech – language therapy, play is the first thing we observe. As Plato once said: “You can discov
8 years ago by Jona 3 minutes
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“He can point to different body parts now!” “She counted from 1 to 30 yesterday!” Quite often, parents share about what their child knows. Young children learn at an exponentia
8 years ago by Jia Yue 2 minutes
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In our previous posts, we have highlighted the importance of play in the development of our children. For children with special needs, especially children with autism, play does not come naturally. Th
8 years ago by Jona 2 minutes
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Parents and professionals use milestones to determine and monitor a child’s development and progress. Aside from knowing the skills achieved at a given age, it would be very useful to have an idea o
8 years ago by Anna 1 minute
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Social Skills Training,Speech Therapy
Hi there! Welcome back to this on going series of Myths vs Facts! Play is very important for children as it is linked to many aspects of a child’s development. These include cognition, language,
8 years ago by Jia Yue 2 minutes
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Language Comprehension as a component of READING and READING COMPREHENSION According to the “SIMPLE VIEW OF READING”, skilled reading (meaning to be a proficient reader) requires two processes: A
8 years ago by Zunaida 1 minute
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Are you at your wits end when it comes to making your child sit and learn? Let’s check… Every time you call out to your child “Let’s read a book”, you get your self ready
9 years ago by Usha 2 minutes
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Two parents were chatting in an elevator one day. One parent was expressing concern that her daughter was not speaking much for her age. The other parent replied that a friend’s son did not spea
9 years ago by Jia Yue 2 minutes
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As children grow, it is typical for parents to become anxious about whether their children are hitting the right developmental language milestones. Although children grow differently, various developm
9 years ago by Jia Yue 2 minutes
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