How Parents Can Help Special Needs Kids Make Healthy Choices
The lessons you pass on to your children will stay with them for a lifetime. If you help them make healthy choices now, they’ll have an...
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Nikki McRory, MA CCC-SLP, BCBA
- Sep 4
- 2 min
Five Fun and Effective Tips to Encourage Children to Combine 2-Words
Language development is a crucial milestone and a child's early years period one of the exciting stages in this process is when children...
Jason Kenner
- Aug 6
- 3 min
Mastering Self-Care: Vital Elements for Parents Navigating Special Needs Parenting
Image: Pexels Raising a child with special needs is an extraordinary journey filled with unique joys and challenges. While it's...
Nikki McRory, MA CCC-SLP, BCBA
- Jul 22
- 3 min
Dynamic Temporal & Tactile Cueing: Evidence Based Treatment for Childhood Apraxia of Speech
When it comes to treating speech and language disorders, therapists are constantly exploring new innovative techniques to improve...
Nikki McRory, MA CCC-SLP, BCBA
- Jul 2
- 2 min
The Connection Between Articulation Development and Reading Difficulties
Articulation refers to the ability to produce speech sounds accurately and fluently. Reading, on the other hand, involves decoding...
Nikki McRory, MA CCC-SLP, BCBA
- Jun 25
- 2 min
Compassionate Care in Applied Behavior Analysis: Nurturing Growth & Empathy
Applied behavior analysis (ABA) is an evidenced based therapy that has proven highly effective in supporting individuals with autism...
Nikki McRory, MA CCC-SLP, BCBA
- May 26
- 3 min
Preparing your Child for an Evaluation
Let’s face it, having your child assessed can be a scary time for both parents and children. Regardless of the reason or the type of...
Jason Kenner
- May 12
- 3 min
How Parents Can Get Organized on a Budget
Parents never have enough time and always have too much to do. If you’re a busy, harried parent yourself, learning how to get more...
Nikki McRory, MA CCC-SLP, BCBA
- Apr 2
- 6 min
10 Everyday Experiences to Build Language
Repetition helps children learn language. In fact, did you know that the average child needs 12-15 exposures before learning a new word,...
Jason Kenner
- Mar 17
- 3 min
How to Support a Sports Interest for Your Special Needs Child Without Blowing Your Budget
Many kids are interested in sports. Joining a sports team is a great way for kids to get exercise and make friends, but sports are often...
Nikki McRory, MA CCC-SLP, BCBA
- Mar 7
- 3 min
5 Things Parents Can Do to Ensure the Best Outcome of Their Child’s Therapy Program
Let’s face it, you spend a lot of money and time in getting your child the support services that they need to reach their utmost...
Nikki McRory, MA CCC-SLP, BCBA
- Feb 26
- 3 min
USING TIME DELAY TO FADE PROMPTS
When teaching children new skills, it is not unusual that they will initially require some support in the form of prompts and cues....
Jenny Pendleton, LMFT
- Jan 16
- 2 min
Parenting and ADHD
As a clinician who works with children and adults diagnosed with ADHD and their families, the journey to management can often be a...
Nikki McRory, MA CCC-SLP, BCBA
- Dec 9, 2022
- 3 min
5 Tips for Parents of Young Children Who Are Not Yet Talking
Seeing your child reach their developmental milestones is a rewarding and exciting time for parents. But when they are slow to develop...
Nikki McRory, MA CCC-SLP, BCBA
- Oct 30, 2022
- 4 min
Choose Your Words Wisely: Tips to Help Your Child Combine Words
Do you remember hearing your child’s first word? What a wonderful milestone! And as your child says more and more you start to feel a...
Nisa Ruel
- Aug 14, 2022
- 3 min
How Books Can Help Kids with Speech Delays
A study by WHO consultant Sophie Jullien on language and speech delays in children found that the average prevalence of isolated speech...
Nikki McRory, MA CCC-SLP, BCBA
- Jul 16, 2022
- 3 min
Dysfluent Speech - When Should I Worry?
A question that I have been asked a lot recently is whether it is normal for children to emit dysfluent speech and when as a parent...
Nikki McRory, MA CCC-SLP, BCBA
- Feb 7, 2022
- 3 min
5 Key Principles to Preventing Challenging Behaviors
Let’s face it, children can have big emotions and those big emotions can translate to tantrums and other challenging behaviors. These...
Nikki McRory, MA CCC-SLP, BCBA
- Jan 23, 2022
- 5 min
Enhanced Milieu Teaching: A Naturalistic Developmental Behavior Intervention for Promoting Language
Young children who have deficits in communication and language skills are not only at risk for academic failure but are also at risk for...
Nikki McRory, MA CCC-SLP, BCBA
- Jan 10, 2022
- 3 min
Early Predictors of Autism Spectrum Disorder
There are many early signs of autism in young children which include challenges with shifting attention, decreased joint attention, and...
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