This Scribble was penciled by Abbey Flesner, Speech & Language Therapist at The Children's Place. Expose Your Little One It has been found that children as young as 2 years old use race to reason about people's behaviours (Hirschfiel, 2008). Therefore, it is important to start providing your little one with positive information about the world early on. Exposing [...]
This Scribble was penciled by Nicole Reynolds, Founder and Managing Director of The Children's Place. WE ARE NOT WAITING, WE ARE ADVENTURING FORWARD We are not going to sit here waiting for COVID-19 to be over. Just because the world has dramatically changed, the amount of children and families that need our support has not. We are [...]
Often times, parents will ask how to engage their little one in activities that promote speech and language development. Parents may pull lots of toys and games off the shelves and ask their child to “say this” or “look at this.” This can be overwhelming for an early learner, and cause them confusion as [...]
Understanding Dyslexia What is Dyslexia? Dyslexia is a difficulty with words: ‘dys’ means ‘difficulty’ and ‘lexis’ means language. Dyslexia is more common than you might think: it is thought that it affects up to 10% of the population, and it affects as many females as males. It has strong familial link, so if there [...]
