How Sensory & Communication Effect a Child's Life

This seminar will discuss practical strategies to target a child’s sensory and communication development during functional everyday routines. The majority of parents of children with special needs are exhausted and overwhelmed. It is difficult to fit in time to “work” on what your child’s therapist recommends between sessions while parents are busy with the demands of home, work and other children. The struggle to balance everyday life and the extra attention that a child with special needs requires leads parents to feel guilty and helpless. This seminar addresses this struggle by educating parents on how they can help their children WHILE completing every day chores and routines. Similarly, this seminar will also address how child care workers can target their students’ objectives during functional activities within the daycare setting.
This seminar will help parents and professionals to:
• Understand what “Pre-verbal” skills are and how they related to speech and language development
• Understand how sensory regulation and language work together
• Learn how to address your child’s sensory and language needs within everyday routines in a non-intrusive, family oriented manner.
• How to encourage regulation, communication and social interaction by following your child’s lead.
• Substitute/convert everyday household objects into effective therapeutic tools