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"12 Activities to help your child with social skills"

"10 tips for selecting toys for your child with speech/language delays."

"Middle School and Handwriting… how to help your child improve their legibility after elementary school" provided by LCPS AT OT

The purpose of this paper is to explore the gradual development of verb-particle constructions in child language by examining longitudinal data from the spontaneous oral speech of Naima, an English-speaking girl from the Providence Corpus of the CHILDES database (MacWhinney, 2000; Demuth, Culbertson & Alter, 2006), between ages 0;11 and 3;10. My findings also support the claim that input and interaction play a major role in the language acquisition process. Indeed, by analyzing the emergence and usage of phrasal verbs by Naima, I will thus compare the top ten verb-particle construction types used by the child and the adult. Ultimately, I will show the correlation between the most frequently used phrasal verbs in adult speech and the earliest constructions acquired by Naima

free resources to teach your child to read

Teach your child how to hold his/her pencil correctly!

Speech-language pathologist, Lacy Morise, and physical therapist, Nicole M. Sergent, team up to share insights, stories, strategies, and resources about child development on their popular blog.

"Executive Function 101 is a free e-book from founding partner the National Center for Learning Disabilities. Download the e-book to find out what executive function is and how it impacts kids with learning and attention issues. This e-book also includes an illustration of a day in the life of a child with executive functioning issues."

"These projects provide ideas and strategies to promote play through better access to play materials, and use assistive technology to give the children this critical access. Typical solutions revolve around "low tech" assistive technology. By building on what the child can do, and by creating interactive play environments, families can reclaim play as a critical component of childhood! Look here for information on selecting toys for play, toys for children with disabilities, adapting toys to make them easier to use, locating specially designed toys as well as other resources to promote play."

"Since 1993, the Screen Actors Guild Foundation has been committed to championing children's literacy. 'Storyline Online' features professional actors reading notable children's books and extending supplemental activities for each book co-developed by an early literacy specialist. Content is available online 24/7 free of charge -- and ultimately is intended to ensure that every child with Internet access can be read (and enjoy the benefits of) a bedtime story."

"Are you the parent or teacher of a child with deaf-blindness or multiple disabilities? Are you looking for a community of families and teachers such as yours? Are you a professor or student at a university interested in connecting with others to share resources and strategies around literacy for learners with complex challenges? Are you an administrator looking for ways to improve literacy in your school systems? Then you are in the right place."

"Stories Have fun reading our Kids online interactive stories, which are perfect to read to your child or let preschool or school age children read themselves. Our free online stories, with audio, are easy readers that beginning readers can enjoy. Perfect for homeschool and classroom use. Stories about a Princess, a Pirate, Curious Baby, BunBun, Beakley, and Educational books to be read online."

Practical tips and many free downloads. social stories, visual supports, how-to's , etc from a mother of a child with autism. very useful info

PODD Communication Books Image of child using her PODD with her mother.Pragmatic Organisation Dynamic Display (PODD) is a means of selecting and organising symbols so that people with complex communication needs and their communication partners can commu

Knowledge Adventure has been making educational games for kids for over two decades. Working with child experts, developmental psychologists and educators, it produces games loved by parents and children alike. The fun educational games created by Knowled

Jacob's Lessons is a group of teaching tools to help your child learn to count objects, use the mouse, match objects and recognize objects. Best of all it is free.

PECS for All Free visual supports you can make for your child.

This is a quick list of 12 ways to help individuals with disabilities to engage and participate with one another.