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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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Swallowing Development Milestones – In Utero to First Months of Life

November 30, 2023 by Ashley Zhinin.

This guide provides information on swallowing development from the womb to one year of age. Use this in the NICU setting to help parents of premature babies understand feeding difficulties at the beginning of life.

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Oral-Pharyngeal Dysphagia: Advancing from Purees to Solids

February 1, 2022 by Megan Berg.

Introduction and advancement to solids can be a tricky process for some little ones. Variation with developmental milestones and food preferences can make the transition even more difficult. This resource provides quick tricks and tips to help your child advance from purees to solids.

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Reciprocal Language Milestones Birth-5

January 5, 2022 by Megan Berg.

Parents and caregivers are sometimes unsure of the milestones their child should reach when thinking about conversational language and reciprocal language. This resource is a quick guide to essential milestones that can be targeted and when they are age-appropriate.

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Pronoun Milestones

January 4, 2022 by Megan Berg.

This quick visual provides approximate ages of pronoun development for both clinicians and caregivers.

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Pre-Linguistic Skills

January 3, 2022 by Megan Berg.

This handout contains a list of 8 chronological skills that come before language that are expected to develop between 9 and 15 months.

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Feeding Milestones: 0-24 Months

January 2, 2022 by Megan Berg.

This handout breaks down what to expect between the age of 0-24 months in the area of feeding/eating development.

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Types of Gestures in Pediatric Development

December 29, 2021 by Megan Berg.

This handout defines the difference between deictic gestures and representational gestures with guidelines on typical development guidelines for the pediatric population.

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Expressive and Receptive Vocabulary Milestones

December 24, 2021 by Megan Berg.

Children with speech/language delays do not meet vocabulary milestones at the same time as typical, same-aged peers. Because of this, children with language delays need increased verbal input and exposure to new words. This resource serves as a quick reference for clinicians and provides information on the number of words children generally acquire expressively and receptively by age (12 month to 36 months).

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Developmental Grammar Milestones

December 23, 2021 by Megan Berg.

This handout is designed for speech-language pathologists and other language specialists and outlines 8 major grammar milestones for children from 19-50 months.

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