Earlier in the week I looked at play skills in children less than a year old. Play is critical for a child as it helps the development of many skills, such as fine and gross motor skills, cognitive and language skills, and social and emotional skills. Play helps a child to learn and generalize these new skills and concepts.
Parents always hear how important play is to children–it’s their work. Young babies, toddlers, and children love to 
play and they often like to play the same thing over and over again. Parents are their babies first playmates and through play children learn new skills and how to connect socially.
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Reading skills are crucial for a child’s success in school. “Of every 100 children who leave first grade as poor readers, 88 will still be poor readers at the end of third grade, limiting their chances of academic and future workforce success.” (NLC Institute for Youth, Education and Families) With the start of the academic year, many children will require extra tutoring or additional tools to supplement their reading lessons at school.
Many children with special needs have problems with friendships. The problems can surround not understanding nonverbal communication, to not being able to identify emotions, to confusion over humor and more. One thing we know for sure is that a life without friendships and human connections is a very lonely life.
As my daughter approached the age of four, I realized that her social skills were not developing as I had hoped. Her home-based program adequately addressed many important skills, but the social ones seemed to be lagging behind. I started to look for solutions.
“We are not interested in making a profit and just want to help others in return for all the help that has been given to 
us.” This is not a typical statement from a new business owner, but it is the statement from Tania Decicco, founder of ASD (Autism Spectrum Disorder) Communications Through Visual Aids. Tania continued with “Our business is about making individual visual aids for children and families for what they need and at cost price.”
“When one door closes another door opens; but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us.” — Alexander Graham Bell
This guest post was written by Vicki Hill, a co-founder of the Child and Adolescent Bipolar Foundation and chief financial officer of nonPareil Institute. She is also the mother of two children, one with Asperger Syndrome, schizoaffective disorder, Tourette Syndrome and epilepsy. She can be reached at Vicki@npitx.org. Read the rest of this entry →
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