#developmentalplay

[sensoryplayforkids]

A Sensory Playmat That Grows with Your Child | texture mat for babies -Lattooland

From tummy time to crawling and beyond, our Sensory Play Mats are designed to evolve with your child’s development. With 8 different textures, your little one will never stop exploring.

[aminuteofme]

To aHa! moments...

[shenandoahsoundstart]

Here is another fun activity you can do to go along with book reading- choose a game or activity that you can play with your child that will help carry over some of the target words and sounds you all practiced together while reading! Here, we read a book about different occupations kids can have when they grow up and then afterwards we labeled and matched some of the people we saw within the book. We had so much fun with this activity, which was full of opportunities to use language! #betterhearingandspeechmonth #BHSM #earlylanguage #pediatricSLP #developmentalplay #playwithpurpose #learnthroughplay #shenandoahsoundstart #winchesterva #pediatrictherapy #speechtherapy #kidsptotspeech #soundstart #literacy #readtome #literacyandlanguage #languagelearning #getcreative (at Shenandoah SOUNDstart, LLC) https://www.instagram.com/p/CPDRzc9M6G_/?utm_medium=tumblr

[shenandoahsoundstart]

Brown Bear Reading a book is so much more than just reading the words on the pages! There is a ton that can be added to story time such as labeling the pictures, talking about what is happening, answering questions, and expanding your child’s words and phrases, just to name a few. Check out what you can do with a simple book such as the classic “Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?” by Bill Martin, Jr. and illustrated by Eric Carle. Happy reading! #betterhearingandspeechmonth #BHSM #earlylanguage #pediatricSLP #developmentalplay #playwithpurpose #learnthroughplay #shenandoahsoundstart #winchesterva #pediatrictherapy #speechtherapy #kidsptotspeech #soundstart #literacy #readtome #literacyandlanguage #languagelearning #otptspeech (at Shenandoah SOUNDstart, LLC) https://www.instagram.com/p/COy00vfMR0U/?igshid=esncok53v65t

[shenandoahsoundstart]

May is Better Hearing and Speech month! What does an SLP do?#betterhearingandspeechmonth #BHSM #earlylanguage #pediatricSLP #developmentalplay #playwithpurpose #learnthroughplay #shenandoahsoundstart #winchesterva #pediatrictherapy #speechtherapy #kidsptotspeech #soundstart (at Shenandoah SOUNDstart, LLC) https://www.instagram.com/p/COwiNoAsDpX/?igshid=u2cfbz99s356

[shenandoahsoundstart]

May is Better Hearing and Speech Month! Did you know children learn best through play? You can use blocks to elicit all sorts of communication! When beginning to learn language, children often have an easier time imitating non-words. For example, take turns with your child building a big tower. Once the tower is built, you can model “ta-da!” Use these blocks to also model early prepositions while you are making the tower such as “look! it’s going up, up up.” Or knock the tower “down, down, down!” Get silly and pretend to use the blocks as a microphone to imitate the sounds of all the fun animals you see on each box. Model words like “hat” or “head” and pretend you all are astronauts going to the moon! The options for learning language through play are endless. So grab a toy and let’s get creative! #betterhearingandspeechmonth #BHSM #earlylanguage #pediatricSLP #developmentalplay #playwithpurpose #learnthroughplay #shenandoahsoundstart #speechtherapy #winchesterva #pediatrictherapy #kidsptotspeech #kidsspeechtherapy #shenandoahsoundstartva #soundstart (at Shenandoah SOUNDstart, LLC) https://www.instagram.com/p/COhAUrLMEzo/?igshid=pz5w2p6jnmcz

[zannypotts-blog]

We spent the morning at the Peter Rabbit exhibition after an early park play... we are so lucky to have such an amazing local place to go... its just brilliant the children loved it! it’s totally free and so much to do. We all had a great time definitely worth going too! #peterrabbit #tuesdayswithmommy #sensoryplay #developmentalplay #roleplay #myboys #autumn🍁 #october2018 (at Burton at Bideford) https://www.instagram.com/p/Botnhx9lYeECHLQhRp-sagj4mrhNoKa8uTFlsM0/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=pced1tj6gcg7

[babycliffnotes]

Age Appropriate Toys (Birth to 2 Years Old)

I went to the developmental play class at the Hollywood Pump Station on Friday taught by Edith Mak, an occupational therapist.  I'm not sure how much I learned because Benny is almost nine months and the class was geared closer towards those starting to sit, but it was cool to see the other toys that help development.  I don't have a scanner, but I attached a photo of the handout of age appropriate toys for birth to age 2.  

Some other websites whet handout suggests is aota.org - the American Occupational Therapy Association; zerotothree.org - National Center for Clinical Infant Programs; and U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission for any recalled toys.  

Benny sitting at the front of the class again.

The class showed some positions for babies:

- Prone with arms extended (sort of like cobra yoga pose) - have her reach for an object with one arm while in the pose

- Prone to Hands and Knees

- Creeping

- Crawling

- Rolling Prone to Supine (rolling back and forth so that they can start to move by rolling)

- Prone to and From Sitting

- Sitting to and from Hands and Knees

- Pull up to Stand from Hands and Knees (using furniture)

- Pull up to Tall Kneeling (using support)

- Cruising Sideways

- Standing Independently

- Lowering Self to Floor (to pick up toys while supporting themselves)

- Walking Independently

- Inferior Pincer Grap, Superior Pincer Grasp

- Transfer Objects Between Hands

- Isolated Index Finger Action

- Hold Crayon

- Container Play

- Self Help: Feeding

- Stacking Blocks