When people ask me why we decided to homeschool our child when he was 3 years and 10 months, I tell them that I want to get to know his learning style better so I …
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Investing in the Child’s First 2000 Days
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Are we creating more “disabled” children?
Parents are expected to guide their children and facilitate learning and growth. In this day and age of exposure to varied media and we hear stories about children hurting themselves because of an online game, …
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Teaching Future Therapists
One of the things that I have been enjoying doing, is supervising Speech Language Pathology (SLP) interns in their last year as undergraduate students. I became a young supervisor in 1995, two years after graduation. …
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A Sense of Urgency
It was June 1993, I was 20 years old when I officially reported for work in a special school in Quezon City. I requested for a month-long rest after graduating in UP Manila so I …
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Trying Threes
Recently, my soon to be three-year-old son has been more dramatic. Initially, he would just cry when he doesn’t get what he wants. Now, he rolls over, screams and cries. It takes more time to …
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21st Century Skills
According to the book Growing Up Wired by Lee-Chua, et al., parents of today are called digital immigrants while our children are digital natives. They have never known a world without the Internet. I have …
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Our Child’s Nature
It is his nature to be strong and brave. It is my nature to keep him safe. It is his nature to be independent. It is my nature to keep him close. I …
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Therapy is not life-long.
Signing discharge notes for our kids never fails to make my heart happy. Duration of therapy is dependent on the severity of delay or disorder but for most kids who received early intervention, they should …
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Four Ps for an Enduring Practice
(This was a speech I made for the CAMP Testimonial 2018. Physical Therapists and Occupational Therapists who recently passed the board exams were given honors as well as the academic scholars of the College of …
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Social Skills
I saw a child with special needs today. The 6 year-old boy displayed good retention of vocabulary and concepts taught but he had difficulties in understanding questions and following commands. He is good in memorizing …
