November 17th, 2011 
KJensen Your vision is getting fuzzy, maybe it is time for glasses. So, you go to see the eye doctor and discover that the cause of your blurred vision is diabetes! Vision changes are often the first sign of diabetes, and many cases are identified for the first time during an eye exam. Get health insurance quotes here for eye exams.
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No Comments » June 14th, 2011 KJensen 
Author: Lisa “Luna” DeCurtis, M.A., CCC-SLP
Parents are using mobile technology at an ever-increasing rate and therefore need to constantly be using their critical thinking skills to determine which apps are the most appropriate for their child’s learning style and development. There are a number of factors to consider when selecting apps –both for home use and when integrating them into a child’s educational program- and I’ll discuss how to make wise choices based on various developmental theories. Click here for affordable health insurance plans.
June 14th, 2011 KJensen
Author: Lisa “Luna” DeCurtis, M.A., CCC-SLP
There’s extensive research from around the world that supports the benefits of raising a bilingual or multilingual child. Many parents have questions about the best way to integrate two or more languages in the home. Similarly professionals need guidance on how to support a bilingual or multilingual child in an educational setting.
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Here are 3 key factors to understand what goes into a child becoming bilingual or multilingual, as well as information on the language learning process to guide professionals who assess bilingual or multilingual children. These include the order of acquisition, the language input, and the time-ordered process to become bilingual.
June 14th, 2011 KJensen
Author: Lisa “Luna” DeCurtis, M.A., CCC-SLP
There is extensive research from around the world that supports the benefits of raising a bilingual or multilingual child. Parents often have questions about what they need to consider when raising their child bilingually. When acquiring a second language, some key factors include: how long you’re exposed to both languages, how much opportunity there is for input to process it and output to practice it, and how the culture and community you live in uses and values the language. Click here for affordable health insurance plans.
June 10th, 2011 KJensen 
Author – Moira Sullivan, MS, OTR/L, Occupational Therapist
Everyone has witnessed a child throw a tantrum. For Parents, it is nerve wracking, embarrassing, exhausting and makes them want to throw their own tantrum. What should a parent do? Grandparents and Great Grandparents everywhere nostalgically remind us that “in their day, a good slap with the belt….” But, spanking is a parents’ own tantrum, a reaction to something a parent does not like. There are better ways to quell a child’s tantrum and reduce their frequency.
May 25th, 2011 KJensen Author: Filice Insurance Compliance Department
Many health plans provide coverage for dependent children of the plan’s participants. Traditionally, health plans have had significant flexibility in determining which individuals would be eligible to be covered as dependents. However, this flexibility is affected by the health care reform requirement to provide coverage up to age 26 and by some state laws.
Whether dependent coverage under a health plan is tax-free (at the federal level) depends on whether the individuals covered as dependents also qualify as dependents under the Internal Revenue Code (the Code or tax code). An individual can qualify as a dependent under the Code by being any one of the following:
Posted in Compliance and HR, Employees, Insurance, Kids, You at Work Tags: definition of dependent, dependent care coverage under health care reform, dependents for health insurance, health care reform changes in dependent, qualifying child for health insurance, qualifying relative for health insurance plans, tax-free dependent, tax-free health insurance for dependents, what qualifies as a dependent on health plans, who is a dependent No Comments » May 17th, 2011 KJensen Author: Lisa “Luna” DeCurtis, M.A., CCC-SLP
Auditory Processing is a term used to describe what happens when your brain recognizes and interprets the sounds around you. Both Auditory Development, and Auditory Processing are the cornerstone of learning language, and essential to child language development. Some children struggle with auditory processing. The iPad offers tremendous opportunities to build their auditory processing skills. Use an HSA to pay for your child’s iPad, click here for health insurance plans with an HSA.
Posted in Autism, Kids, Lunatykes, You at Home Tags: auditory development, auditory processing, auditory processing disorder, autism and auditory processing, better auditory processing, children communication skills, help for auditory processing disorder, how to listen better, ipad for auditory processing, kids with autism, speech therapy, tips for audtory processing, using the ipad to build auditory processing skills, what is auditory processing No Comments » May 17th, 2011 KJensen Author: Lisa “Luna” DeCurtis, M.A., CCC-SLP
Today I’m here to encourage parents and professionals to focus on the learning process when playing with and teaching young children regardless of whether they’re using traditional tools or mobile technology, such as Apple’s iPad. Get an HSA for educational technology, Click here for affordable rates on health insurance.
Posted in Autism, Kids, Lunatykes, You at Home Tags: autism and the ipad, autism and the learning process, children communication skills, HSA and educational technology, ipad for learning, kids with autism, learning process, speech therapy, teaching techniques with technology, using the ipad to learn No Comments »
