What is floortime? DIR is an evidence-based intervention model developed by Stanley Greenspan and other experts in the field in the 1980s. DIR stands for Developmental Individual-difference Relationship-based model. The...
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What is Antecedent-Behavior Consequence (ABC)?
Antecedent-Behavior-Consequence (ABC) is a significant component of understanding the function of behavior. If a child is in ABA therapy or a therapeutic preschool program for additional behavioral support, their teachers...
How A Therapeutic Preschool Program Can Help a Child with Sharing
As children are processing through their early childhood development, play skills and sharing are important components of social development. As with most skills, children require instruction when it comes to...
What is the M-CHAT?
Autism is something that we are continually learning more about, and as our knowledge of the condition grows, so do the diagnostic methods and treatments. There are even assessments that...
Fostering Language Skills: Reading in Therapeutic Preschools
From an early age, we learn the importance of reading as a way to develop cognition and expand the way we see the world. If a child experiences speech and...
Utilizing ASL in Therapeutic Preschools for Enhanced Support
Sign language has been proven to be beneficial for children in a wide variety of settings. Parents have used sign language with their preverbal babies and it has proven to...
How Music Can Be Helpful in a Therapeutic Preschool Program
There are nothing but positives when it comes to incorporating music into a therapeutic program. The overall goal of a therapeutic program is to include the extra multi-sensory component. This...
Why Is Early Intervention Important?
If a child experiences developmental delays in early childhood, early intervention greatly improves a child’s chances of developing positive behaviors. If a child exhibits problematic behaviors early on in development,...
How is Prompting used in a Therapeutic Preschool Program?
Prompting is a commonly used strategy with children on the autism spectrum to build positive behaviors. A prompt can be either a verbal cue or a gesture to encourage a...
What is Stimming?
If you are the parent of a child with autism spectrum disorder (ASD), you may already be familiar with ‘stimming.’ If you are new to stimming, this is a self-stimulating...
5 Apps to Help Children Build Expressive Language
Throughout early childhood development, communication is one of the most pivotal skills for a child to acquire. If a child is experiencing delays in their communication skills, as a result...
Signs a Child May Have Sensory Processing Disorder
Sensory processing disorder (SPD) looks different in every child it affects. So, how do you tell if your child has sensory processing disorder? There are several key symptoms to be...
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