Let’s Go Back to School!
Going back to school can be a rough transition. After a fun and busy summer, it can be challenging to go back to the structured expectations of the school environment! What can we do to support our child’s first few weeks in school and reduce dysregulation?...
Four Fun Ways to Grow Fine Motor Skills at Home
If your child has difficulty with fine motor tasks, here are four fun ideas to target their fine motor control and strength with activities at home!
1. Paint an Abstract Picture
Use pompoms, cotton balls, or cotton swabs (preferably cut in half) to...
Sensory processing is our body and brain’s ability to interpret various sensory information from our environment. As we all learned in grade school, there are five well-known senses: hearing, sight, touch, taste, and smell.
However, these aren’t the only senses our body...
As therapists, one of our top recommended regulation strategies is heavy work! Heavy work activates our proprioceptive system, which is the sensory system that informs our brain where our body is in space. The best part about our proprioceptive system is that it supports our body in achieving the...
“My child has difficulty with transitioning between activities, what can I do to help?”
If your child has difficulty with moving from activity to activity, or from place to place, it can be a difficult time for both you and your little one. One of the biggest reasons that our children...
Emotional regulation is the ability to “control” our emotions. Emotions are part of the human experience, but they can be tricky to navigate, especially when your child can’t bring themselves back to a state of calm without significant intervention or a long wait time.
When...
What does it mean if my child turns their head away during meals?
Children communicate readiness skills and desire to eat through body language. It is up to us as the parents to interpret those readiness skills and this can be challenging! Mealtime with our child is an exchange of love...
The Modified Checklist for Autism in Toddlers (M-CHAT) is a screening tool that our clinic utilizes if your child is between the ages of 16 and 30 months. It helps guide us as therapist on the risks of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) in children who are communicating with delays. The speech...
The submental lymph nodes are responsible for drainage pathways to the lymphatics of the lower lip, floor of mouth, anterior 1/3 of the tongue & gums! In our patients' who have undergone radiation or surgical repair to the floor of the mouth including free flaps we often see involvement of...
Today join us on youtube at Wildflower Therapy as we venture through specific type of lymphedema. Submental lymphedema that can commonly occur after treatment of head & neck cancer.
Following a laryngectomy life changes. Following radiation therapy to the head & neck life changes....
As an SLP my experience in treating head & neck lymphedema continues to be a journey! It is hard and it can be confusing but you can do it! With the right mentorship and the right education all things are possible. The first step is start somewhere. Start by listening to our free education...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=02AqWkkrQ-A
Following head & neck treatment the cheeks might swell.
Perhaps your doctor has needed to cut out surgically the muscles of your cheek and disrupt the surrounding lymphatics?
Perhaps areas of your cheek had cancer and needed to go through...
