by Enrichment Therapies | Feb 16, 2017 | Math
Many parents often wonder how they can help set their child up for future success in math. I always recommend doing activities to help children have a strong sense of numbers and their value. All of the activities below are easy to prepare and will help your child...
by Enrichment Therapies | Feb 13, 2017 | Speech & Language
Does your child stutter or often have disfluent speech? There are a few changes that you as the parent can make to decrease disfluencies and increase your child’s communicative success! Tip #1: Speak slowly. If you speak in a slow and relaxed manner, your child...
by Enrichment Therapies | Feb 11, 2017 | Social Skills
Do you feel like your child often has a HUGE reaction to a small problem? Does not getting first-place result in a full-blown meltdown? It may be that your child does not yet understand how to regulate their emotional response to match the size of their problem....
by Enrichment Therapies | Feb 10, 2017 | Reading, Speech & Language
Written by Jaimi Bird, M.A., CCC-SLP Phonological awareness is a term that refers to a group of pre-reading skills that are important for literacy and language development. Phonological awareness is the ability to hear sounds that makeup words in spoken language. This...
by Enrichment Therapies | Feb 9, 2017 | Reading
Did you know that you can begin teaching the skill of letter knowledge to your babies? That’s right! You don’t need to wait until they begin preschool (although that is also an important time to expose them to letters). Here are some easy activities for...
by Enrichment Therapies | Feb 6, 2017 | Resources
Do you find that your student struggles to remain focused while working? Is it difficult to motivate your child to stay on-task for a certain amount of time? Or is it difficult to move away from ‘break time’? One great tool that often helps students (young and old) to...
by Enrichment Therapies | Feb 6, 2017 | Enrichment TLC Events
Here at the Coralville location of Enrichment Therapy & Learning Center, P.C. we have so many amazing and hardworking students! We wanted to honor those students who go above and beyond. Therefore, we have started a Student of the Month program and will be...
by Enrichment Therapies | Feb 3, 2017 | Enrichment TLC Events
Get Ready to Meet One of our Great Students! ETLC Student of the Month Urbandale Location Nominated by Jaimi Bird, M.A., CCC-SLP In 2017, we are starting a new tradition at Enrichment Therapy and Learning Center. We are recognizing one student from each of our ETLC...
by Enrichment Therapies | Feb 3, 2017 | Social Skills
Does your child become overly upset and anxious about tiny things? Do you think your child overreacts to mistakes or changes in their schedule? Problems can occur in many different social as well as academic settings. They can create challenging behaviors if children...
by Enrichment Therapies | Feb 2, 2017 | Social Skills
Last week, I posted about using charts to help children develop an understanding of basic emotions. If you haven’t seen the blog post on emotion charts, check it out here before reading on! As students begin to better understand the emotions they are experiencing, we...
