Play & Thrive Therapy Center

30/07/2026

30/07/2026

22/07/2026

🌱 Help your teen build meaningful connections—starting at home.

Sometimes, the most meaningful conversations with our teens begin with the simplest questions and those moments can become the foundation for lasting connection.

Join The Medical City Institute of Pediatrics and Center for Developmental Pediatrics for next month’s Parent Class in the Language Series: From Conversations to Connections: Helping Teens Thrive Socially.

Together, we'll explore how everyday conversations can help teens feel heard, build confidence, navigate friendships, and develop the social skills they need to flourish.

Come learn, reflect, and grow with other parents as we discover how small changes in the way we communicate can make a lasting difference.

Register today: bit.ly/LanguageSeries_August2026 ✨

We'd love to have you with us. 💬

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13/07/2026

We are looking for RSLPs to provide services to more kids in Balanga, Bataan. You can send a private message or email. 😊

06/07/2026

We have a crisis in early childhood — and it's hiding in plain sight.

Walk into almost any preschool classroom and you'll find it: children reciting colors, counting to 20, naming shapes, and rattling off letters. And adults beaming with pride.

But here's the question nobody's asking — do they actually know what any of it means?

And yet we've built entire assessments, report cards, and parent conversations around these performances, mistaking recitation for learning.

Rote drills activate the most surface level of cognition. They don't transfer. A child who can count to 100 may have zero number sense. A child who knows every letter name may still struggle to decode because phonemic awareness, as the real foundation was never developed.

Meanwhile, the experiences that actually wire the developing brain are being crowded out.

Connection builds the emotional safety that makes all learning possible — the foundation of every risk a child will ever take as a learner.

Nature and outdoor movement grow executive function, attention, and regulation, and give children's bodies what they were designed for. Running, climbing, jumping, and digging are not recess filler. They are brain development. You cannot skip the body and expect the mind to follow.

Sensory play builds the neural pathways that underpin reading, writing, and mathematical thinking.

Listening to children (truly, responsively listening) and genuine, reciprocal communication, builds vocabulary, narrative thinking, and the felt sense that their voice matters. When we talk at children instead of with them, we rob them of the interactions that grow language most powerfully.

The more of us who understand this, the brighter early childhood (and lifelong development) becomes. 🌱

17/06/2026

Non-speaking does not mean non-understanding 🌈

This is one of the most important shifts we can make.

When a child isn't using spoken words, it's easy for the world to assume they aren't taking things in.

But speaking and understanding are two different things. A child can absorb everything around them, follow what's happening, and have rich thoughts and feelings, all without saying a word out loud.

So we presume competence. We talk to them, not around them. We never say anything in front of a child that we wouldn't say if they could respond.

We assume they understand, and we keep showing up as if they do, because they so often are.

Every child deserves to be spoken to like the capable person they are. ☀️

Tag or share this with a teacher or SLP bestie who needs the reminder today.

25/05/2026

22/05/2026

Congratulations! 👏👏👏

May 2026 Speech-Language Pathologists Computer-Based Licensure Examination Results Released in Two (2) Working Days

The Professional Regulation Commission (PRC) announces that 17 out of 19 passed the Speech-Language Pathologists Computer-Based Licensure Examination given by the Board of Speech-Language Pathology in N. C. R and Cebu this May 2026.

The members of the Board of Speech-Language Pathology who gave the licensure examination are Hon. Maria Eusebia Catherine S. Sadicon, Chairperson; Hon. Juan Paulo D. Santuele and Hon. Ma. Rowena A. Ynion, Members.

The results were released in two (2) working days after the last day of examination.

Starting June 16, 2026, registration for the issuance of Professional Identification Card (ID) and Certificate of Registration will be done on-line. Please visit the official PRC website (www.prc.gov.ph) and follow the instructions for registration. Those who will register are required to bring the following: 1) Screenshot of system-generated Registration Form; 2) valid government-issued ID. Successful examinees should personally register and sign in the Roster of Registered Professionals.

The date and venue for the oathtaking ceremony of the new successful examinees in the said examination WILL BE ANNOUNCED LATER.

https://www.prc.gov.ph/article/may-2026-speech-language-pathologists-computer-based-licensure-examination-results-released

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15/05/2026

If you're a licensed SLP or OT based in Bataan and looking for a center to work with children with special needs, send us a message. You can also send your CV to [email protected]. 😊