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Amy Spawn writes: Amelia, found herself in a place she never thought she would be, in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) with her son, Gad, born 10 weeks premature. She had two older children and those pregnancies went smoothly but here she was gazing at her son trying to disseminate all the information being given to her. The days went by and to create some normalcy in her life Amelia would leave the NICU […]

Daily routines can provide children with beneficial, learning opportunities that ensure safety, consistency and comfort in their environment.  Young children might not yet fully understand the concept of time, so they do not order their lives by hours and minutes, but rather by the events that happen. In what some researchers have described as an ‘epidemic of anxiety’, the predictability and familiarity that comes with routine offers the perfect ‘safe space’ that kids need. When […]

Although she was 22 months old during the initial consultation, Ira could only eat purees in exchange for a reward of watching her iPad screen. Though she would eat a few bites of puree, Ira still preferred breastmilk instead of solid food. Ira frequently gagged in her attempts to eat textured food and ultimately refused to swallow non-textured food. Ira’s mother, Madhu Selvaraj, found it difficult to work from home due to Ira’s inconsolable crying […]

The process of searching for the best pace for David to receive therapy services was very disenchanting for Ursula. He demonstrated global delays, and evaluations often cited gross motor skills as the most significant type of delay. After much research, she decided that The Warren Center’s Early Childhood Intervention (ECI) program could provide David with the intervention services he needed and the emotional support they both needed. Through his enrollment in ECI at The Warren […]

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