As a parent or caregiver, we can’t help but worry about our children. Are they eating right? Getting enough sleep? Or too much screen time? Are they meeting their developmental milestones? As a mother myself, I have the same concerns. While I can’t get my child to eat broccoli and have trouble with limiting technology [...]
It isn’t always easy being a parent, especially with our busy lives. Deciphering if your child has a language or speech challenge is not always so straightforward. The team at Orlando's First Words Speech Therapy understands it can be a struggle and it isn’t always easy to know what is best for your child. Which is [...]
We all know children learn best through play, speech, language, communication, and problem solving. But often times we forget to take a step back and see playtime from the child’s perspective. Accepting your child’s opinions, interests, strengths, and views increases their natural motivation and validates who they are. The five most agreed on characteristics of [...]
The act of speaking for children takes complex fine motor skills, it demands hundreds of accurately, coordinated, planned, and executed oral motor movements, which are expressed in consonants and vowels. It takes a lot of practice for a child’s words to be spoken with ease, automatic, intelligible, and fluent. With the goal of your child [...]
