by Erin Lopez-Brooks | Apr 27, 2022 | Montessori
Tourette’s Syndrome (TS), also known as Tourette’s Disorder, is a spectrum disorder, which causes sudden involuntary muscular twitches or spasms, known as tics (Marsh, 2007; McGuire, 2014; Rudnick, 2008). TS is a chronic neurobiological impairment with the...
by Erin Lopez-Brooks | Apr 14, 2022 | Montessori
Selective Mutism (SM), is a disorder usually first seen in preschool and school-aged children who possess the ability to speak, however they may not speak in certain situations or environments, and it may interfere with their social or academic functioning...
by Erin Lopez-Brooks | Mar 28, 2022 | Montessori, Resources
Dr. Maria Montessori’s original work was based upon the work of Dr.s Edouard Séguin | American psychiatrist and Jean-Marc-Gaspard Itard | French physician, who was known for his work with The Wild Boy of Aveyron. You can read about Dr. Itard’s experiences and...
by Erin Lopez-Brooks | Nov 10, 2021 | Montessori, Behavior Analysis
A lot of people have asked me why I would want to combine these two approaches within my work when they are so different. I embarked upon this journey out of necessity about 20 years ago when my first son was not babbling by age 1 or speaking at age 3. Despite us...
by Erin Lopez-Brooks | Jul 6, 2021 | Montessori, Behavior Analysis
In Montessori education, we have the luxury and requirement of individualizing the lessons for each child’s needs through our lens of education as “a help to life.” We are not burdened by individualizing our lessons only for those children who have a formal diagnosis...
