Is your family always late to get out of the door because the kids just need to do something? Or perhaps time just always slips away because the kids don’t have a sense of time? I’m sure I speak on behalf of all parents when I say that [...]

Everyone’s talking about it. All daycare centres do it. Everyone knows how good it is for the kids. Even my visiting nurse for 8 month old Hugo has talked about it. Have you guessed what it is yet? ✨ Dialogic reading!✨ It actually took some time before I fully understood what [...]

Three and a half year old Alberte had a fall outside and immediately burst out: "Damn it - that hurt"! Well, excuse me - what was THAT? We never use swear words at home. I asked her if she was okay and told her, that she should not say such [...]

Have You ever read the poem "Welcome to Holland"? I get so very moved, every time I read it. It is nearly impossible for Your family and friends to comprehend the feelings and sence of grief, that comes with having a handicapped child. Emily Perl Kingsley descibes it perfectly in [...]

When we learned that both our girls had hearing impairments, we had to adapt our surroundings to achieve the best possible acoustics and listening environment. Anyone wearing Cochlear Implants will always have to face challenges with auditory input and identifying one sound from another.We had to minimise any kind [...]

The Ling-6 sound test is for children wearing Cochlear Implants (CI) or Bone Anchored Hearing Systems (Bahs) The Ling-6 sound test was one of the very first methods, we encountered in our Auditory Verbal Therapy with our girls. We have followed the strategies for almost 2 years now - it has [...]

With great aniticipation, we wait for the magical moment, when a child speaks their very first word. We have had many magical moments, discovering our children's first imitations, the first babbles, the first words and the first real sentences with 2 or 3 words. For some children, it is easy to learn [...]

At a certain time of year, it almost seems as if every child has a middle ear infection and the otologist is fully booked - "damn it", you think to yourself... You probably already know the signs: The child has difficulty sleeping and wakes up several times during the night [...]

Language development and play go hand in hand Play time is often considered a mere diversion for children and is highly underestimated. However, it turns out that play is essential for the child's general development and language skills. It is actually considered so important, that it is substantiated in the [...]

Learning good language skills early in life helps develop the child's sence of community and ability to form friendships later in life. Although research studies focus more and more on language training being teachers' responsibility in kindergarden and pre-school, we believe that parents can do so much more Language is [...]