All children behave in challenging and difficult ways. But if your child has persistent and frequent behaviours such as anger, arguing, defiance or vindictiveness towards you and other authority figures that impacts their daily functioning they may meet the criteria…
What’s the difference between speech and language? In everyday life, the terms ‘speech’ and ‘language’ are often used interchangeably. However, when health professionals use those terms, they are actually describing two different things. For example, when a speech-language pathologist says…
What is joint attention? Joint attention is a behaviour in which two people focus on an object or event, for the purpose of interacting with each other. It is a form of early social and communicative behaviour. Joint attention involves…
Mindfulness is simply paying full attention in the moment. It involves relaxed focusing, without any judgement. For kids, mindfulness may be used to help with managing conditions including autism spectrum disorder, challenging behaviours, ADHD, anxiety and stress. Growing evidence suggests…
Can you imagine how it would feel if every sight, sound and touch were unbearably intense? Or if those senses were greatly diminished? The sensory systems are vital for knowing what’s happening in our bodies and interacting with each other…
It’s no secret that most infants are breast- or bottle-fed, but for some children, neither of these are an option. Feeding Tube Awareness week, which runs from February 2 to 8, raises awareness about people getting nutrition through a tube,…
Mornings are busy, and often stressful. One of the biggest stressors for parents is packing a healthy lunchbox that will get eaten. Here’s our tips on helping make healthy lunchboxes easy. Why is a healthy lunchbox important? Healthy lunches and…
Milk. It’s all your infant has known for their first few months of life. But what happens when your baby is suddenly a toddler? Here’s what you need to know about toddlers and milk. Why give toddlers milk? Milk can…
Setting boundaries with your child is extremely important. Healthy boundaries teach children self-discipline, safety and coping skills. Boundaries also teach children rules about what is acceptable behaviour, which is especially important when they start entering preschool. What’s acceptable? Before you…
Growing Early Minds' speech-language pathologist, Sanjida Sarmin is passionate about supporting bilingual children, and regularly faciliates educator workshops on this topic. Sanjida has put together a comprehensive article on sorting fact from fiction about bilinguslam which has been picked-up and…
