Last fall I went through a stressful stretch in life. I started noticing that my jaw would not open fully without my jaw clicking in the morning. It started to pop and click when I opened my mouth, when I yawned, while I was eating. It was very annoying and got to be painful. Backstory…. … [Read more…]
Pausing can be such a valuable tool in our therapy sessions and throughout our interactions with others. If we are always quick to fill in the silence we may be taking away a child’s opportunity to smile, to reference us, to gesture or to vocalize to communicate. In a sense, we can rob him or … [Read more…]
The ability to process information and then respond can be impacted by sleep, stress, how active someone has been during the day, or a multitude of reasons. Children that process slower or that have difficulty finding a word they want to use coupled with outside factors may have a more challenging time taking in information. … [Read more…]
