It’s About Helping Every Child to Learn

This fall I began working with a local child care center that agreed to use the WoW Kits Terrific Topics curriculum materials to promote language and social skills in a small group of children with a variety of developmental delays. The group is made up of 8 children who are pulled from their regular classrooms [...]

Child Portfolios 101

Recently I’ve been working with a local preschool as they explore ways to measure student achievement throughout the year. The teachers are particularly interested in child portfolios. Personally, I love this method. It is easy to integrate into the current program, it creates a clear picture of a child’s development over time, and it is [...]

A New Tool Helps Identify Autism in Young Toddlers

WebMD recently published an article announcing the development of a new screening tool for identifying autism spectrum disorder in infants. It is called the Systematic Observation of Red Flags (SORF) and it is designed to be a practical screening tool that doctors or other clinicians can use along with the M-CHAT (Modified Checklist for Autism [...]

Coping with a Challenging Baby

Whether a baby is collicky, hard to settle, generally fussy, or especially needy, dealing with an infant that cries a lot is challenging. For parents it is a very difficult phase, but eventually the phase does come to an end. For infant teachers each new year brings the potential for another challenging situation.
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Celebrate “Moo”

This week Babe mastered the word “moo”. Yes, “moo”, the sound a cow makes. It sounds like no big deal, but it’s something we’ve been working on with his speech therapist for a few weeks now and we are celebrating!
It turns out that animals sounds are the perfect introduction to speech. They are simple and [...]