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Professional Learning Services

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Meet Maura and Nicole: your child’s new best friend! Both are NY licensed speech language therapists with experience working in Brooklyn public schools. They provide professional learning services for elementary, middle school, and high school students who are struggling academically, who have special needs and/or learning disabilities, and for students who are home-schooled.

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Supporting Your Child?s Sensory Development At Home by Lynn-Marie Herlihy, MS, OTR/L, Occupational Therapist

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As a new parent to an 9-month old boy, I busy myself reading child development books and checking online resources, to assure myself that he is meeting his developmental milestones each month. While we are playing and having fun, I am assessing his emerging gross and fine motor skills, listening to his burgeoning language, and marveling at his cognitive gains.

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Getting A ?D? for Over Supplementation, by Richard Kahn, M.S. Registered Dietitian

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Vitamin D is a hot vitamin that just got a bit cooler. Due to its popularity, D is now in more foods than ever. It used to lurk in milk but now it is in orange juice and many other common foods. In addition, D functions differently in different cultures. To further complicate the picture, there remains important disagreement as to how D functions among knowledgeable nutrition scientists. The dominant view is that about a 1,000 mg of calcium are needed for bone health. The main idea in this school is that the bones are like banks that need frequent

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