[Source: Fab Strategies to Promote Self Control] Intervention strategies promoting body awareness can improve behavior in children and adolescents with sensory processing, trauma history, developmental, and mental health challenges. Improving youngster’s body awareness is particularly important for children and adolescents because it…...
Snowman Bowling!! Thank You! to @khowland4 on Instagram for permission to re-gram and blog this adorable idea. She uses them in speech for reward activity and for social skills turn taking, etc. How much work completed determined how many times the kids…...
[Source: ASHAsphere] by Melanie Potock MA, CCC-SLP Sippy Cups became all the rage in the 1980s, along with oversized shoulder pads, MC Hammer parachute pants and bangs that stood up like a water spout on top of your head. A mechanical engineer, tired…...
[Source: Science Daily] In a study of the range of treatments being employed for young children with autism and other developmental delays, UC Davis MIND Institute researchers have found that families often use complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) treatments and that the…...
[Source: Science Daily] Teens with a history of concussions are more than three times as likely to suffer from depression as teens who have never had a concussion, finds a new study in the Journal of Adolescent Health. “What this study suggests is…...
[Source: Philly.com] Although learning to drive may be a rite of passage for most teens, teens with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder may need extra help in navigating the road to licensure. The symptoms of ADHD – difficulty with attention, challenges with emotion…...
[Source: Pediatric Physical Therapy via Your Therapy Source] Pediatric Physical Therapy published a systemic review on the efficacy and evidence of using orthoses for children with hypotonia. Ten articles met the inclusion criteria although none were Level I evidence (evidence from properly designed…...
Editor’s Note: You may have already seen this TED Talk by Sam Berns. It has gone viral this past week since Sam lost his battle with the aging illness – progeria. What an amazing young man. [Source: The Boston Globe, January 11,…...
[Source: Medical News Today] Researchers believe they have developed a psychological technique that improves the mental wellbeing of children with autism – through an activity that invents tiny characters the kids can then imagine are in their heads helping them out with…...
In the style of Lorde’s Royals, this Occupational Therapy Student Anthem was written and performed by a select group of extremely talented OT graduate students of Saint Louis University. Lyrics written by Elizabeth Henrichs. Vocals by Elizabeth Henrichs, Brittany Conners, Morgan Eck,…...
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