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Packing, Snacking and Pediatric Nutrition: What’s Healthy?
Deciding on food can be difficult and expensive. It’s hard enough figuring out what we as adults should be doing, not to mention helping the children in our lives make healthy choices.
There’s so much information out there for us to sort through. Mediterranean diet, artificial colors, to gluten or not to gluten? And don’t get me started on the great dairy controversy.
Let’s simplify and walk through it together. Figuring out what’s healthy is attainable. Squeezing it into your busy lifestyle without your picky five-year-old going on a hunger strike is achievable.
A Calmer Kid in Only Five Days? A Parent’s Guide to Safe and Sound Protocol
You might’ve heard about Safe and Sound Protocol. Perhaps you’ve even downloaded a free version of the sound frequencies to see what it’s all about. When used alongside other therapies, Safe and Sound Protocol is an effective anxiety treatment. It’s also an effective treatment for PTSD, sensory processing difficulties, abnormal sleep patterns, and much more.
Your Child’s Beautiful Brain: Crafting and Forebrain Development
Four Forebrain Functions and Therapeutic Crafting
There’s a lot of buzz between your ears, and I’m not just talking about the scrambling “to-do list” and “what-if?” chorus planning your upcoming week. The brain is made of several different structures that keep your body regulated, let you know when you’re in pain, and even help plan what you’ll have for dinner tonight.
The forebrain includes structures that help your child regulate emotions, plan and coordinate movement, and motivate action for basic self-care.
Who Else Wants Their Child to Grow Healthy Friendships? Try A Social Skills Group
Who Else Wants Their Child to Grow Healthy Friendships? Try A Social Skills Group
Group Activity for Social Skills
Let me tell you a story about four wonderful teenagers. They started out as socially awkward strangers but ended up as unlikely friends. Now when I say unlikely, I do mean unlikely. This virtual social skills group hosted four very different students, ages 14 to 18.
Balance: What It Is and How To Address It
WHAT IS BALANCE? What are 5 ways to address balance in the home environment? Join one of our amazing Physical Therapists, Dr. Marta Carrion, PT, DPT, PCS as she gives us some tips!
ARTICULATION: Tips to Practice at Home
What is ARTICULATION? How do we carry over this skill into the home setting? Here are a few tips to help make practicing articulation at home easier and more attainable. By Jessica Smith, MSEd, CF-SLP.
What is “Narration”?
What is “Narration”? Narration is a language strategy used by speech-language pathologists. It is exactly as the word means: narrate the things that are happening in your child’s life, environment, and routine. This strategy is used to encourage language use and increase knowledge and use of vocabulary. It is a beneficial strategy for children of any age and developmental stage.
Helping Hands Therapy Holiday Gift Guide
Do you need a little help with ideas for holiday gifts? We got you covered!
Here are some of our top recommendations of toys that stimulate development, recommended by our Therapists! We give you some ideas and let you know why we think they’re so great!
Handwriting: Part 2
What is a Developmental Handwriting Approach? What is a Remedial Handwriting Approach? What can parents do at home?
A developmental handwriting approach focuses on teaching handwriting in the same sequence that visual and hand skills develop.
The best handwriting approaches are able to meet a child where they are in terms of skills and offer a variety of multi-sensory activities to teach handwriting. These activities can include singing, dancing, and playing along with traditional tracing, and learning correct letter formation, tracing, copying, and independent formation (writing).
What is the developmental progression of handwriting strokes? Great question!
Therapist Book Recommendations
What do therapists read? What books do we recommend? Check out some of our reading recommendations here!