Activities for Sensory Breaks During Fire Prevention Week
Special-ism - Reach Your Child's Potential with Professional Insights Did you know it is Fire Prevention Week? Sure is! So, how about a quick and educational sensory break? Here are some The post...
View ArticleCalming Your Child During a Natural Disaster
Special-ism - Reach Your Child's Potential with Professional Insights Swinging is known to have a calming effect on the nervous system. The rhythmical movements and repetitive pattern gives steady,...
View ArticleVisual Perception Activities: Part 1
Special-ism - Reach Your Child's Potential with Professional Insights A.M. Skeffington, an American optometrist known to some as “the father of behavioral optometry”, believed that vision cannot be...
View ArticleVisual Perception Activities: Part 2
Special-ism - Reach Your Child's Potential with Professional Insights In Visual Perception Activities, Part 1, I explained how visual perception comes from combining visual skills with all other...
View Article5 Ways to Encourage Independent Play
Special-ism - Reach Your Child's Potential with Professional Insights As we move into the new year, we will continue to have crazy weather. Sometimes weather too poor to send our children The post 5...
View ArticleSimple Movement Can Improve Your Child’s Communication
Special-ism - Reach Your Child's Potential with Professional Insights Here are some movement tips that may be helpful for children that have communications challenges. Maximize the Child’s Posture Is...
View Article12 Ideas Focusing on Balance and Vestibular Activities
Special-ism - Reach Your Child's Potential with Professional Insights In honor of Occupational Therapy (OT) Month, we encourage you to include a focus on balance and the vestibular system. Need some...
View ArticleScooter Board Activities for the Home
Special-ism - Reach Your Child's Potential with Professional Insights When people come over to our house for the first time, they are usually a little surprised. Our family room looks like The post...
View ArticleExercise Balls: What To Do With Them?
Special-ism - Reach Your Child's Potential with Professional Insights Exercise or therapy balls have been used in the therapy world for many years as a tool for core strengthening, developmental...
View ArticleThe Essentials for a Sensory-Friendly Learning Environment
Special-ism - Reach Your Child's Potential with Professional Insights Many children with Sensory Processing Disorder (SPD) and other isms find it easier to study at home rather than in public school....
View ArticleThree Yoga Poses for a Balanced Body and Balanced Mind
Special-ism - Reach Your Child's Potential with Professional Insights Children love balancing poses. They love the challenge. They love the feeling of victory over gravity. When asked what his...
View ArticleVestibular Activities and How to Use Them Appropriately with Your Child
Special-ism - Reach Your Child's Potential with Professional Insights The vestibular system detects movement of the head and the pull of gravity. The sensory information is received through the inner...
View ArticleDo You Know About The Interoceptive Sense?
Special-ism - Reach Your Child's Potential with Professional Insights Research the topic of Sensory Processing Disorder and before long, you will discover that there are actually more than the 5 senses...
View ArticleWearing SPD Lenses: 7 All-Season Reasons to Purchase Pool Noodles
Special-ism - Reach Your Child's Potential with Professional Insights The first official day of summer is but days away and, so, summer recreation items are on sale everywhere. Well, don’t just The...
View ArticlePhysical Therapy and SPD, The Sensory-Motor Team
Special-ism - Reach Your Child's Potential with Professional Insights October is both National Physical Therapy Month and National Sensory Awareness Month. Given the timing of both of these...
View Article5 Ways to Make Short Work of Sensory Diets with Long Grass
Special-ism - Reach Your Child's Potential with Professional Insights The old adage says that April showers can bring May flowers. Along with those flowers comes grass. Lots of grass growing in The...
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