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Sep 23
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Getting divorced? When it comes to helping your children adjust appropriately: Anticipate problems and Minimize their effects [Part 1], by Susannah Gersten, M.S.W., LCSW, Psychotherapist

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There is no perfect divorce. Many parents come to me for psychotherapy asking for advice about how to minimize the negative effects of the impending separation on their children and on their family as a whole. While this is no substitute for ongoing family therapy, this and future blogs will outline the most common concerns that parents bring to me. What follows are the first two issues to address. My advice is to anticipate these issues and minimize their influence as much as possible.

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Sep 08
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Fragile X in the Classroom: Helping Students Re-gain Composure, by Laurie Yankowitz, Ed.D., Educational Therapist

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Students with Fragile X Syndrome seem to often be described like the mythical girl with the curl in the middle of her forehead: when they are good, they are very very good, and when they are ?bad? they are …well, let?s just say quite disruptive. What accounts
for our lovable, good-natured, eager to please angels morphing into Tasmanian devils quicker than you can say ?Fragile what??

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Aug 31
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Brooklyn Manhattan Queens Reading Writing Intervention: Specialized Literacy Services

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Our specialized tutors are like the Olympic coaches of language. We specialize in the complete literacy remediation package: reading, writing, speaking, and listening. When we’re working with students, we focus on all areas of language such as both written and verbal skills or both reading and listening comprehension. After all, you can’t have one without the other. That would be like peanut butter minus jelly.

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Aug 26
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For Family Members of Children with Language Delays: It Takes Two to Talk?

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It Takes Two to Talk? is a family-focused program that gives parents or other caregivers of children with language delays in the 2 to 7 year range, practical tools to help their child communicate. The program?s philosophy is that because parents and other family members are the most important people in the child?s life, they are the best people to help their child learn to communicate.

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Jun 08
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Supporting Your Child?s Sensory Development At Home by Lynn-Marie Herlihy, MS, OTR/L, Occupational Therapist

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As a new parent to an 9-month old boy, I busy myself reading child development books and checking online resources, to assure myself that he is meeting his developmental milestones each month. While we are playing and having fun, I am assessing his emerging gross and fine motor skills, listening to his burgeoning language, and marveling at his cognitive gains.

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