Category Archives: ADHD

Fine motor Activity…


Fine motor development is the developmental skill required to continue functional activities. Many children with developmental delays have difficulties in fine motor development and hence, their functional (eating) and educational (writing) skills are struggle. One activity which i generally suggest … Continue reading

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Reading and Speech development


A child starts to acquire speech and communication as early as birth. However, he speaks around 1 years but, in that first year he imbibes lots of information about his environment and surroundings. At this stage he learns the meaning … Continue reading

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Sensory Stimulation


Sensory processing is an integral part of human survival. It involves how a person uses his senses to organize and effectively uses the information from the external world. Sensory processing provides the information of a person body with respect to … Continue reading

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Discrete Trial Training


Discrete trial training is a powerful technique for acquisition of new skills for the children with Autism or other developmental delays. Discrete trail is given in 3 points: Teacher based instruction Child based response Consequence/ reinforcement Discrete trial training is mostly done … Continue reading

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Behavior Analysis


During my sessions with parents, sometime telling principles of behavior and its change confuses them. Most of the people understand Negative reinforcement and Punishment are same. A simple difference is to find the difference is behavior and to see if … Continue reading

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Aesthetic awareness…


Artistic language includes the expression about the object with one’s perspective. It is important to teach a child his own view about the world. The regular children talk about color, shapes, textures, taste is like making aesthetic choices. This is one … Continue reading

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Reinforcement and bribery…


Many a time parents ask me back “isn’t reinforcement mean bribery?”, when I talked to them about reinforcement and ABA. The answer is NO. Reinforcement works as a reward and it is given immediate after the completion of the expected … Continue reading

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How to reduce flapping…


Most of the children with Autism and developmental delays may enjoy flapping and tapping hands or watching fingers. These activities increase when they are excited. This is called “Stimming”, it is way of calming the arousal system. Stimming may increase … Continue reading

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Sensory activities for Olfactory system/ smell sense


Olfactory sense is associated with smell and it indicates what is good and bad smell. Smell sense is also associated with hunger and taste bud. Sometimes, we smell like pasta and we start drooling or likes to eat it. Most … Continue reading

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Dyspraxia


Praxis term means “action on will”, in lay man terminology “voluntary action”. We all human being plan before we act. We plan to act differently in same situation depending on the environment. But, most of the children with developmental delay … Continue reading

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