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How can we help a hard-to-reach child who finds nothing interesting and does and wants to do nothing but run back and forth, bounce, lie around, shake things, throw things, scream, or bite? This is where I often resort to the Waldon Method....

The Waldon Method is an educational approach by English neurologist Dr. Geoffrey Waldon, based on direct observations of typical human development and the essential mechanisms of learning in the early months and years. While the ideas...

The Waldon Practitioner As a Waldon practitioner and learning facilitator, you are aware that the child learns primarily through his or her own movements. Why? Movements activate the sensory receptors in the muscles, joints and tendons and send nerve impulses to the...

Healthy development is the result of rich and varied interactions between the child and his environment, both with people and with the things around him. Although every child comes with certain character traits, temperaments, sensory and...

This classic children's play material is so easy to make at home that you will never want to buy it again! It's best to start simply with your hands and imagination (without store-bought tools and cookie cutters) for maximum sensory experience and...

It's winter or autumn and it's osselich outside. You've spent the whole day indoors. Or you've been outside, but your child is still full of energy, running around aimlessly or bouncing loudly on the sofa. You've run out of ideas. It's...

Understanding Language Understanding language begins with the child feeling that he is an effective communicator and repeatedly experiencing that he has loving people around him who understand what he means when he uses his body to...

Mouth and face games, which are really a larger-than-life version of face-to-face games for babies, are probably the most important "games" to get an autistic child talking and interested in human interaction....

10 Developmental Strategies to Help Your Child Understand Language Look at what the child is looking at AND look at his face so you can tune into his emotional state. Remember that the meaning of the words is not in the thing,...

Human language is not only a learned behavior, but consists of complex social communication about emotional-mental states, thoughts and ideas using symbols and cultural meanings. 1. divided attention When a...

Joint Attention Joint attention is the process of sharing the experience of observing an object or event by following the gaze or pointing gestures of another. It is the mental progression from a two-way to a...

Gestural communication Long before a child learns to speak, i.e. at least in the first 15 months, he communicates through GESTURES: with his hands, fingers, pointing, giving, handing, pushing away, ...BODY LANGUAGE: he moves his foot to say "do it again",...

Self-regulation arises from co-regulation The ability to self-regulate is fundamental to healthy development and the basis for all further learning and cooperative behavior. This is a matter of identifying and adapting to challenging behaviors and...

Joint problem solving: Every interaction - a good interaction! When we want to help a child up the developmental ladder, problems are our best friends and helpers! Earlier, after putting Bruno's beloved letters in a screw-top jar, we...

Water is this unique medium that envelops you and seems to offer no resistance, can carry you but cannot be held. To hold it requires a container that gives the water a shape and boundary, and then a second...