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3 days ago
2 min

Back to School Series: Following Directions

Whether your child is headed back to school in-person, remote, or hybrid, following directions is an important skill for success!

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Using AAC to Better Support Your Child’s Communication

Boston Ability Center

5 days ago
5 min

Using AAC to Better Support Your Child’s Communication

Interested in learning more about how BAC speech language pathologists can support your child's development? Contact us to speak with a c...

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Sensory Seeking Solutions for Infants and Toddlers

Boston Ability Center

Nov 16
3 min

Sensory Seeking Solutions for Infants and Toddlers

During this season of virtual learning, working from home, and daycare closures, little kiddos have more energy than usual. If your toddl...

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Boston Ability Center

Nov 16
3 min

Fine Motor Fun for Infants and Toddlers

What are fine motor skills? Fine motor skills are the ability for the small muscles in the fingers and hands to coordinate with the eyes....

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Boston Ability Center

Nov 14
3 min

AAC Myths and Facts

As you learned in last month’s blog post, use of AAC can help children to communicate their wants, needs, feelings, and ideas. But how do...

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Boston Ability Center

Oct 25
3 min

What is AAC?

What is AAC is and how you can use it to best support your child’s communication development?

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Back to School Series: Sensory Solutions for Self-Regulation

Boston Ability Center

Oct 18
1 min

Back to School Series: Sensory Solutions for Self-Regulation

Our ever-changing world is bound to challenge self-regulation skills for adults and children alike... but these tools can help!

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Back to School Series: Implementing Visual Schedules at Home

Boston Ability Center

Oct 17
2 min

Back to School Series: Implementing Visual Schedules at Home

As families gear up for the new school year, you may be looking for some ways to provide structure and routine to your child’s day.

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Back to School Series: Unstructured Play In The Home

Boston Ability Center

Oct 11
2 min

Back to School Series: Unstructured Play In The Home

With school starting back up, be sure to leave time in the schedule for the unlimited possibilities of unstructured play!

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Back to School Series: Helping Children Answer the Question "What did you do at school today?"

Boston Ability Center

Oct 4
2 min

Back to School Series: Helping Children Answer the Question "What did you do at school today?"

As your child heads back to school, you may be looking for some strategies to support your child in sharing about his or her day.

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Back to School Series: Executive Functioning

Boston Ability Center

Sep 25
4 min

Back to School Series: Executive Functioning

Tips and tricks for helping your child with executive dysfunction navigate a new school year.

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Back to School Series: Creating your very own "Calm Corner"

Boston Ability Center

Sep 25
3 min

Back to School Series: Creating your very own "Calm Corner"

What' is a Calm Corner? How can it help your child? How do you get started?

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11 Online Activities to Target the "sh" Phoneme at Home

Boston Ability Center

Sep 20
2 min

11 Online Activities to Target the "sh" Phoneme at Home

There are a ton of great online resources for practicing speech sounds! These are some of our favorites for practicing the ‘sh’ phoneme.

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10 Shaving Cream Activities for Speech and Language Development

Boston Ability Center

Sep 13
2 min

10 Shaving Cream Activities for Speech and Language Development

Looking for creative ways to target your child’s speech and language goals at home? All you need is... shaving cream!

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Boston Ability Center

Aug 30
3 min

Welcome to the World of CIMT

CIMT is an innovative upper extremity intervention approach. This all sounds great, but what does CIMT mean?

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Boston Ability Center

Jul 25
8 min

Understanding CVI

With intervention, your child’s brain may build pathways for vision around the damaged areas in the brain to improve visual processing.

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Namaste! What’s all the buzz about Yoga?

Boston Ability Center

Jul 18
5 min

Namaste! What’s all the buzz about Yoga?

Arielle is excited to share why she’s so passionate about using yoga in OT and how you can bring the benefits into your child's life too!

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Boston Ability Center

Jul 10
2 min

Motor Activity in Children with Autism

Physical therapy has been a relatively new addition to the care team for children with ASD, and has quickly developed an important role.

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Posture, Movement, and Sensory Modifications: Creating the Ideal Work and School Environment at Home

Boston Ability Center

Jun 28
4 min

Posture, Movement, and Sensory Modifications: Creating the Ideal Work and School Environment at Home

Stay happy, healthy, and active to make working and learning from home a success!

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Boston Ability Center

Jun 26
2 min

Recycling or therapy tools?

Do you have a lot of advertisement flyers that come in the mail? How about using them as another tool to target your child’s speech goals?!

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