Household Items to Improve Your Childβs Articulation Skills
By: Lindsay Barret MS, CCC-SLP
If you look around your home, something youβve likely been doing more of these last few years than ever before, you will find several items you can [β¦]
Tips To Make Homework Time Less Daunting
By: Lindsay Barret MS, CCC-SLP
At CommuniKids, our speech- language therapists usually assign homework to promote generalization of skills learned during therapy beyond the walls of our treatment rooms, whether the goals [β¦]
Becoming Occupational and Speech-Language Therapists
By: Lindsay Barret, MS CCC-SLP & Michelle Beck,Β MS OTR/L
With the school year approaching and back to school supplies on everyoneβs minds, our clinicians started thinking about their school years. Here at [β¦]
Speech & Language Therapy
SPEECH-LANGUAGE THERAPY
Speech-language therapy helps children build the skills they need to become better communicators, better listeners, and better students.
Effective Strategies for Improving Handwriting Skills
By: Meghan Matusiak, MS OTR/L
Handwriting skills require many components, including fine motor skills, visual motor skills, and visual perceptual skills. Β In occupational therapy, we place the focus [β¦]
New York City Autism Speaks Walk 2017
This September, our team will be participating in the annual New York City Autism Speaks Walk to show our support for the Autism spectrum [β¦]
Using Visual Schedules for Self-Regulation
By: Michelle Beck, MOTR
Children are often better able to navigate their days and remain self-regulated when they have a routine they can rely on. Visual schedules are [β¦]
Occupational Therapy
OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY
Occupational therapy at CommuniKids focuses on helping children function independently. By bolstering their foundation of sensory processing, strength, attention, [β¦]
Meet the Therapist: Brycen Raybon, OTR/L
By: Brycen Raybon, OTR/L
About Me
My name is Brycen Raybon and I am an Occupational Therapist. I graduated with my Master of Occupational Therapy degree in May 2019 [β¦]
Big Emotions and Calming Strategies
By: Michelle Beck, MOTR
The term βself-regulateβ describes a calm state that is achieved by a person without outside assistance, hence the word βself.β Some of the strategies that older children and [β¦]