[Source: OTs with Apps] Among the updates in the new iOS 9 operating system, offered late October 2015, are additional features for touch accommodations. These setting are wonderful additions to students with motor impairments but also highly relevant when working with adults…...
[Source: Your Therapy Source] This freebie challenges visual perceptual skills with a Thanksgiving theme. Practice visual motor, visual discrimination, visual spatial, visual closure and overall visual perceptual skills with these printables. Print off multiple copies for your students and your activities are ready…...
[Source: Science Daily] Would your ability to resist a tantalizing cookie improve if you had to wait a few seconds before you could reach for it? The idea that natural urges ‘die down’ with time seems intuitive, but new research shows that…...
Editor’s Note: This is a fantastic article that School Based OTs might like to share with the classroom teachers they work with! {Source: Differentiated Kindergarten] Some of our little ones come to our classes without ever having held a pencil, and suddenly,…...
[Source: Medical X-Press] Philosopher Thomas Hobbes called it “the lust of the mind.” Former first lady Eleanor Roosevelt said it was “the most useful gift.” And, yes, we all know what killed the cat. But ask a group of scientists to define…...
[Source: MindShift] Fifth-grade teacher Kyle Redford remembers with emotion the day she unwittingly put an iPad in the hands of one of her 10-year-old dyslexic students, a day she called “a complete game changer.” While the rest of the class was working…...
Editor’s Note: Great Article to give to the parents and guardians of your secondary school students with autism [Source: My Aspergers Child] Teens with Asperger’s (AS) and High-Functioning Autism (HFA) are particularly vulnerable to mental health problems (e.g., depression, anxiety). One study…...
[Source Medical News Today] “Mom! He splashed me on purpose!” “No I didn’t – it was an accident!” Arguments over whether one sibling intended to harm another are a common soundtrack for parents with more than one kid. New research from Concordia…...
[Source: Huffington Post] by Amanda MacMillan With just 10% of the population being left-handed, it can be easy for everyone else to forget we’re living in a right-handed world. But aside from making it tough to cut a straight line with a…...
[Source: Pink Oatmeal] As a physical therapist we use numbers all the time. We count reps all the time. In school we will do warm-ups where we incorporate counting. I made cards with numbers 1-30 in the past to make warm-ups more…...
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