Parenting & Therapy Resources in Naperville

If your child has been in speech therapy for a while and progress has been slower than expected, you may have heard the term PROMPT come up. Maybe a provider mentioned it, or you found it while searching for answers late at night. Either way, you are probably wondering what it actually is and whether it might be right for your child. Here's a straightforward explanation. PROMPT stands for Prompts for Restructuring Oral Muscular Phonetic Targets That's a mouthful, and it doesn

Guest Post A note from Anya: Families navigating an autism diagnosis often find themselves overwhelmed by the sheer number of provider options and decisions ahead of them. For families who are considering ABA, we brought in someone who knows this space inside and out. Brigid McCormick, MA, BCBA, LBA is the Founder and Clinical Director of Precision ABA and the Founder of The Institute for Clinical Excellence, both based here in Naperville. She has a lot worth saying. Brigid's

You've probably heard of the five senses. Some of you may even know about proprioception and vestibular processing, the hidden senses that help kids understand where their bodies are in space. But there's an eighth sensory system that rarely gets talked about, and for a lot of children struggling in therapy, it's the missing piece. It's called interoception. And once you understand it, you'll start to see it everywhere. What interoception actually is Interoception is your bod

Most families come to us after months, sometimes years, of weekly therapy sessions. Progress is happening, but slowly. Life keeps moving, and you find yourself wondering if there's a way to give your child a bigger boost. That's usually when intensive therapy enters the conversation. Intensive pediatric therapy is a concentrated model of care where your child receives sessions multiple times a week, sometimes every day, over a short period of time. Usually two to four weeks.