Language Development resources

Navigating the Big World of Sensitive Kids

June 30, 2026 by Megan Berg.
A concise handout to help parents understand highly sensitive kids through the lens of regulation, sensory processing, and communication instead of just behavior alone. Use this resource to guide supportive conversations and offer simple, in-the-moment strategies that respect the child’s experience while building long-term skills.
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Understanding Listening Fatigue and Cognitive Load in Deaf/HOH Students

May 31, 2026 by Kimi Mitchell.
This handout helps teachers, parents, and caregivers understand the hidden effort children with hearing loss experience when using hearing devices. It offers simple, practical ways to reduce listening demands, support energy levels, and create environments that work with the child’s capacity.
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The Hidden Tax: Understanding Masking and Burnout

April 30, 2026 by Kimi Mitchell.
Help clients understand masking and the hidden effort it takes to navigate social expectations after brain injury, ADHD, autism, or anxiety. This handout explains the concept in simple language and introduces practical ways clients can reduce cognitive load and recover from masking burnout.
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Neurodevelopment Reality Checks

April 30, 2026 by Kimi Mitchell.
This resource helps parents see everyday challenges through a developmental lens rather than a milestone checklist. Therapists can use it to normalize variation in development while guiding conversations about when support may be helpful.
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Barrier Matching Game: Fine Motor + Descriptive Language

April 30, 2026 by Kimi Mitchell.
A collaborative barrier game that encourages students to practice describing, listening, and problem-solving while matching picture halves they cannot see. Therapists can use this activity to target expressive language, comprehension, and communication repair while incorporating cutting, visual scanning, and turn-taking.
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Visual Processing and Gestalt Language

March 31, 2026 by Kimi Mitchell.
This activity helps support global visual processing and meaning-making in children with right hemisphere brain damage, without overemphasizing details or “right answers.” It offers flexible, gestalt-friendly prompts that honor how each child interprets context, emotion, and what matters most in a visual scene.
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Collaborative Behavior Supports

February 27, 2026 by Megan Berg.
This resource reframes challenging behaviors as clues to unmet needs, lagging skills, and environmental mismatches, helping teams move beyond compliance-based approaches. The table format provides a practical way to collaborate with families and schools, identify what’s happening under the surface, and choose supportive strategies that honor each child’s autonomy and nervous system.
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Routines Built By Kids, Not For Them

February 27, 2026 by Megan Berg.
This resource gives kids the lead in shaping their own routines, helping them identify what makes transitions easier and what supports they prefer. Use these templates to co-create meaningful, shareable plans that honor autonomy and reduce overwhelm.
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Early Communication & Social Development: Patterns Worth Exploring

January 31, 2026 by Megan Berg.
This handout offers a warm, neurodiversity-affirming way to talk with families about early communication and social patterns that may benefit from extra support. Use it to open collaborative, low-pressure conversations with parents while highlighting strengths and inviting next steps when helpful.
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