Dr. Simone’s Mind Space

Learn how to support social-emotional development in your child from birth to age three. It's so important for parents to help their child learn how to cope with their feelings. Learn how parents are their child's guide in sharing the joys and coping with the challenges, starting on day one. Starting in the earliest months of life, well before they can use words to express themselves, babies have the capacity to experience peaks of joy, excitement, and elation. Babies can also feel fear, grief,

To get our young children and toddlers to cooperate, we need to help them understand how our requests and rules are good for everyone. Cooperation is the ability to balance one’s own needs with someone else’s. We often think of cooperation as children doing what adults want. That is compliance. True cooperation means a joint effort—a give and take that is mutually satisfying. To develop a cooperative spirit in children, we need to help them understand how our requests and rules are good for

Families need to play an important role in early intervention services in order to support their child’s goals and development. Although there is no “magic wand” to ensure family engagement, there are a variety of evidence-based strategies designed to support greater family involvement in early intervention services. Services Parent coaching model offers a means to build parents’ confidence and competence in the context of home visits. Supervisors, coaches and mentors offer onsite sessions,

The first three years of life are a period of major growth in all areas of an infant’s development. The earliest relationships with caregivers can promote healthy brain development, young children build social and emotional skills, and ways you can support language and literacy development starting already pre-birth. Talking to your infant during pregnancy and reading stories to them when their born really helps their growth. Loving relationships give young children a sense of comfort, safety,