Seven ways to help your nonverbal child speak

This week, researchers published the hopeful findings that, even after age 4, many nonverbal children with autism eventually develop language. For good reason, families, teachers and others want to know how they can promote language development in nonverbal children or teenagers with autism. The good news is that research has produced a number of effective …

Transformation in the Land of Oz

The main reason I decided to give up August in Beautiful British Columbia and fly halfway around the world to Australia, where it was winter, was to discover how services to people with developmental disabilities were faring under the very rapid implementation of the change from block State funding to a National individualized-funding-based ‘insurance’ model …

Tegu Toy Review: The Magnetic Wooden Blocks

This past summer Creekside was lucky to receive a generous donation from Knotty Toys on Granville Island, magnetic building blocks by Tegu. Tegu is a block company based in Tegucigalpa, Honduras. Tegu provides jobs to the people of Honduras giving them living wage jobs that offer long term career growth and development. They also use …