At Resonate Music Therapy, we understand that loved ones, parents, and guardians, want their children to be happy, fulfilled people who can clearly communicate wants, protests, thoughts, ideas, advocate for themselves, and generally share their internal world with others!

A crucial area of development in this regard is communication. At Resonate Music Therapy in Colorado Springs, we’re here to support children's communication skills at all ages and levels! Communication includes receptive language (how a child understands what is said), expressive language (how they use words and formulate sentences), speech sound production (how they produce sounds and combine them to formulate words), social language, and pre-literacy/reading skills. Let's explore the key milestones in communication development from birth through age 6 - these are based on Linguisystems Guide to Communication Milestones, and reviewed by our phenomenal speech therapist, Sarah Killian. 

Here at Resonate Music Therapy, we work extensively with autistic and neurodivergent individuals, some of which are also gestalt language processors (GLP). So what exactly does that mean? Read on to learn what it means to be a GLP, and how we work with GLPers here at Resonate.

You’ve likely heard about ADHD. You might associate it with rambunctious school-aged children who have trouble staying in their seats and listening, and you’re not wrong. Many of those who are diagnosed, especially in years past, are exactly that. However, ADHD can present in *many* ways, and not all of them quickly come to mind for the average person.

Most people diagnosed with the “classic” symptoms of ADHD were white male children at the time of diagnosis. As we learn more about ADHD, it’s becoming clearer that women, minorities, and adults are often going underdiagnosed because they do not exhibit the classic symptoms, but still struggle with coping with ADHD symptoms.