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What are some activities for children who have difficulty accepting different foods or textures?
August 22, 2020
Carrie Alvarado, PhD, OTR answers this question from Abby (thanks, Abby!), following ELI's Kitchen Conversations, Summer Style webinar series where we talked about mixing Occupational Therapy into summer fun at home. Find the full webinar (30 minutes) with closed captions and transcript here: /webinars
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I can’t always understand my child and I feel terrible-Help!
August 22, 2020
Cindy Harrison, M.Sc., Reg. CASLPO – Speech Language Pathologist helps us think about how to speak to our child when we have trouble understanding him or her. This question is a follow up from her presentation with ELI's Kitchen Conversations, Summer Style webinar series where we talked about mixing Speech and Language Therapy into summer…
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Am I doing enough?
August 22, 2020
Cindy Harrison, M.Sc., Reg. CASLPO – Speech Language Pathologist answers this important question we ask as parents, "how do we know if we're doing enough to help our children?" This question is a follow up from her presentation with ELI's Kitchen Conversations, Summer Style webinar series where we talked about mixing Speech and Language Therapy…
Read moreWhat strategies can I give my child to help her be understood?
August 22, 2020
Cindy Harrison, M.Sc., Reg. CASLPO – Speech Language Pathologist answers this question about helping an older child to problem solve ideas to help people understand what she is trying to express. This question is a follow up from her presentation with ELI's Kitchen Conversations, Summer Style webinar series where we talked about mixing Speech and…
Read moreHow can I connect with my child who prefers to be alone?
August 22, 2020
Marcela Mota Aversa is a Clinician & Early Education Mental Health Consultant at The Home For Little Wanderers and a Gallery Educator at the Museum of Fine Art in Boston. In this video clip she answers "how can I stay connected with my child when he seems to prefer to be alone?" This question is…
Read moreHow can I help my child to not spend so much time on screens?
August 22, 2020
Marcela Mota Aversa is a Clinician & Early Education Mental Health Consultant at The Home For Little Wanderers and a Gallery Educator at the Museum of Fine Art in Boston. In this video clip she answers "how can we help our children to stay off screens even when we as adults are on our phones…
Read moreKitchen Conversation, Summer Style: How to mix speech therapy into summer fun
July 30, 2020
Cindy Harrison is a speech language pathologist practicing in Ottawa, Canada. Cindy’s area of clinical focus is the assessment and intervention for children/youth and young adults with autism spectrum disorder and developmental disabilities. Cindy is also senior faculty with Profectum, a not for profit training institute that specializes in training clinicians in DIR/Floortime.
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Kitchen Conversation, Summer Style: Supporting mental health during summer fun
July 23, 2020
Marcela Mota Aversa is a Clinician & Early Education Mental Health Consultant at The Home For Little Wanderers and a Gallery Educator at the Museum of Fine Arts.
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How to prepare for back to school in 2020 (whatever it looks like)
July 23, 2020
I think we can all agree that when it comes to planning for our kids going back to school this year, we don’t know a lot. And what we do know changes. Even though we are all living in the same pandemic world right now, we are in different places geographically and we have different…
Read moreKitchen Conversation, Summer Style: How to mix OT into summer fun
July 16, 2020
Carrie Alvarado is the creator and director of the Earliest Connections Clinic and the DIRFloortime/PACT (Pediatric Autism Communication Therapy) Hands-on Family Empowerment program at Autism Community Network (ACN), a non-profit focused on provision of both interdisciplinary diagnosis and innovative intervention for young children with autism spectrum disorder.
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How do you cope when anxiety takes over your child?
July 10, 2020
For a lot of parents and kids, the arrival of summer camp is more than welcomed (Don’t let the door hit ya on the way out, sweetie!) – especially now, given all the time kids had at home because of the pandemic.
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Can I stay with my family member in the hospital if they have a disability? Yes!
July 9, 2020
The last time my son had to stay in the hospital, he tried to pull the needles and tubes from his arms so he could “escape” from his bed. He was 20 at the time, old enough to not need a parent with him in the view of many hospitals.
Read moreKitchen Conversation: Speech Therapy at Home
June 24, 2020
Cindy Harrison is a speech language pathologist practicing in Ottawa, Canada. Cindy’s area of clinical focus is the assessment and intervention for children/youth and young adults with autism spectrum disorder and developmental disabilities. Cindy is also senior faculty with Profectum, a not for profit training institute that specializes in training clinicians in DIR/Floortime.
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Kitchen Conversation: Mental Health Counseling at Home
June 17, 2020
Marcela Mota Aversa, clinician, Preschool Outreach Program, The Home for Little Wanderers (Boston, MA)Marcela Mota Aversa is a Clinician & Early Education Mental Health Consultant at The Home For Little Wanderers and a Gallery Educator at the Museum of Fine Arts.
Read moreKitchen Conversation: Applied Behavior Analysis at Home
June 10, 2020
Zack Storer is a Board Certified Behavior Analyst and Clinical Director at St. Nicholas Center for Children. His clinical experience includes 10 years of work with clients of various ages with Autism and Developmental Delays using Applied Behavior Analysis.
Read moreKitchen Conversation: Occupational Therapy at Home
June 3, 2020
Carrie Alvarado is the creator and director of the Earliest Connections Clinic and the DIRFloortime/PACT (Pediatric Autism Communication Therapy) Hands-on Family Empowerment program at Autism Community Network (ACN), a non-profit focused on provision of both interdisciplinary diagnosis and innovative intervention for young children with autism spectrum disorder.
Read more“How are the kids?”
June 3, 2020
But, those answers are really more about me. Which I think is really fine because let’s be honest, my friend asking me in passing or over email about my kids is not really asking how my kids are doing, she’s checking in to see if I need to talk.
Read morePlease, No More Self-Care: A Quarantine Rant
May 20, 2020
I’ve been hesitating writing to you. I love to share and I love connecting, but I’ve turned inward these last couple of months. Partly because it’s what I needed to stay ok but mostly I didn’t want you to feel like someone else is here to tell you ‘one more thing’.
Read morePart 3: Keeping your child healthy, safe, and calm. Pandemic emergency planning for families of kids with disabilities
May 18, 2020
The final piece of making a pandemic emergency plan for your family is writing down what your back-up caregivers will need to know to keep your kid(s) healthy, safe, and calm. We’ve made some templates that you can download and fill out for your caregivers.
Read morePart 2: Who will take care of my child if I get sick? Pandemic emergency planning for families of kids with disabilities.
May 15, 2020
A pandemic emergency plan is a plan for what to do when you and your co-parent (if you have one) are both sick and need to quarantine or go to the hospital. This is hard for most people to think about; for those of us with kids with disabilities, it can feel overwhelming.
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