• Rub & touch often
• Put items & fingers in the mouth
• Bring textures from soft to rough

• Walk with them held in various positions
• Rock them
• Swing with them
• Vestibular balls & boards -This helps equilibrium, balance and understanding their body)

• Have a variety – sound, light, action
• Keep toys near your child & change them often
• Put where your child is challenged but can get to them
• Hand held toys and larger for hugging -This gives your child visual, auditory and motor stimulation and many children reduce crying as they learn to entertain themselves.

• One word phrases
• Regular conversations
• Repeat words/sounds often
• Give them time to respond
• Assume your child understands

• Focus on pictures
• Touch & point to pictures
• Rhyming words help
• Stories that repeat phrases are good --Not only does this help language & speech develop, it teaches your child to sit still and pay attention.

• Hand over hand – you do most
• Elbow hold – you do less
• Upper arm/shoulder help – child does more
• Verbal help – child does most
• Let go and test your child often to see if they are beginning to learn.

• Break each skill into tiny enough steps for your child to start learning
• Start teaching the last step first
• You help with the steps they lack

• Pick up a spoon
• Hold it
• Put spoon in food
• Scoop
• Food stays on the spoon
• Spoon to mouth
• Spoon in mouth
• Remove food from spoon
• Pull spoon out