Most toddlers love to listen to music! It is exciting and keeps their attention. It is also a fun way to teach a variety of new skills, such as fine and gross motor skills, following directions, basic concepts, and new vocabulary. By singing songs with your child, you can help increase their speech and language...

So much of what we learn is gathered from what we see around us. Vision is not as simple as just seeing something in front of us. It begins with the structure of the eye and surrounding muscles. We must then be able to move our eyes to search for the item, understand it’s shape/form/what...

Your doctor says your child has hypotonia or “low tone”, but what exactly does that mean, and how does it affect your child’s development? Hypotonia is a medical term that means decreased muscle tone. Everyone is born with an individualized amount of muscle tone, which is the level of stiffness and tension of a muscle...

As your child gains independence and is learning to complete dressing activities on their own, clothing fasteners may be a tricky and frustrating skill for them to master because they involve many skills. Completing clothing fasteners, such as buttons and zippers, require refined fine motor skills and grasp patterns, visual motor skill and bilateral coordination...

Many families coming into speech therapy evaluations all ask the same few questions… “Is learning two languages at the same time affecting my child’s language development?” or “Should we only stick with one language even though multiple languages are spoken within our home?”. The answer to both of these questions is NO! Bilingual acquisition (i.e.,...