Taking Off the Pressure at Mealtimes
The Speech Therapy team shares some pointers on mealtimes and eating. Did you know that encouraging your child to eat and worrying about what your child is eating (or not eating!) can actually lead to more picky eating? It’s natural for parents to be concerned about...
Fine Motor Activities to Try at Home
The Occupational Therapy team has put together a list of fine motor activities to try out at home. Completing these activities can help carryover skills they are learning in the clinic. Manipulating Play Doh Build ”breakfast foods”: make an egg, flatten to a...
How You Can Tell If Your Child Is a Gestalt Language Processor
In our last blog, we discussed the different ways children process language, and how some children are gestalt language processors. How can you tell if your child is a gestalt language processor? One telltale sign is if your child repetitively reproduces phrases. We...
Analytic vs Gestalt Language Processing
It might seem like children all develop language the same way—they learn some words, then sentences, and finally they can have a conversation with you. But there are two ways to develop language: analytic language processing and gestalt language processing. ...
What Does Your Insurance Coverage Look Like?
It’s that time again, you call insurance and ask them if a service is covered, and they tell you “Absolutely!” But there might be additional information you need to know before you get into services, we’re here to tell you what they won’t! We do our best to get an...
Gestalt Language Processing: Another Way to Develop Language
By Josie Mlynarski, SLP Graduate Student Have you ever heard of Gestalt Language Processing? Typically, when we think of language development, we are speaking in terms of analytic language processing, which is the process of building language from small...
Thanksgiving Info For Cutting Edge Clients
I feel like it was just summer, but it’s already holiday time again! Closed Thanksgiving Day and The Day After This year, for the first time ever, Cutting Edge will be closed the day after Thanksgiving. Our therapists, who have been working so hard all...
Aquatic Therapy and its Relevance in Physical Therapy Practice
Hi, our names are Lyandria Taylor and Meredith Porteous. We are both physical therapy students completing a clinical rotation here at Cutting Edge Pediatric Therapy (CEPT). During our time at CEPT, we have come across several questions regarding aquatic therapy. Our...
Am I On The Autism Spectrum?
We talk a lot about kids with autism, but sometimes people are not diagnosed with autism until they are adults. I started thinking about this after I attended an Autism Speaks conference. At the conference, I attended a talk led by a panel of people who had...