Category: Occupational Therapy
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Teaching Children About Feelings
Teaching children to communicate and express their feelings effectively is crucial for their emotional development because it lays the foundation for healthy relationships, self-awareness, and emotional regulation. When children learn to articulate their emotions, they can better understand themselves and others, which fosters empathy and reduces feelings of frustration or confusion. This is particularly important…
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Abraham Lincoln’s Story and Activities
Get ready for Presidents’ Day with this week story about Abraham Lincoln. This is great for social studies. Speech therapists incorporate books during sessions because speech and language skills are the foundations of learning to read. Reading to children is a great way to continue speech therapy sessions at home. Some examples: Download the story…
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Cooking: So Many Skills in One Activity
Cooking is a valuable life skill that teaches children a variety of helpful skills. Cooking incorporates a variety of academic skills such as learning about food and food safety, as well as building math, science, literacy, and fine motor skills. Working in the kitchen helps kids develop many important skills. They’re working on fine motor skills and…
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Getting a Therapy Referral For Your Child: It Is Not As Scary As You Think!
Parenting is an amazing experience. Every parent wants their child to thrive. It is an extremely rewarding and challenging job at the same time. Sometimes things come up that cause parents to be concerned with their child’s development. I remember taking my oldest son home the first night after he spent 3 days in NICU…