Helping Your Child Learn Self-Regulation The Alert Program®: “How Does Your Engine Run?”® What types of activities and strategies can we use to switch gears? The Alert Program® teaches that there are five ways to change ..
Continue ReadingHelping Your Child Learn Self-Regulation The Alert Program®: “How Does Your Engine Run?”® What does self-regulation mean? “Self-regulation is the ability to attain, change, or maintain an appropriate level of alertness..
Continue ReadingPlaying to Their Strengths: Developing Sensory Skills The best results come when therapy is fun! Fine-tuning Music therapists enhance the evolution of physical, emotional, cognitive, behavioral and social skills in children with ADH..
Continue ReadingPlaying to Their Strengths: Developing Sensory Skills The best results come when therapy is fun! Therapy depARTment Art therapy for children with ADHD or autism uses the processes of drawing, painting, and sculpting to help address emotional is..
Continue ReadingPlaying to Their Strengths: Developing Sensory Skills The best results come when therapy is fun! Moving in the right direction When children are moving around and playing actively, they are strengthening many of their sensory systems at once: v..
Continue ReadingPlaying to Their Strengths: Developing Sensory Skills The best results come when therapy is fun! It’s (more than) child’s play Why is play important? Play is how children experience and learn about the world around them. When t..
Continue ReadingPlaying to Their Strengths: Developing Sensory Skills The best results come when therapy is fun! Integrating fun with sensory therapy We’ve discussed fun sensory activities you can do at home and in your own surroundings with your kids. N..
Continue ReadingSensational Strategies to Strengthen Sensory Skills 101 FUN sensory activities to do with your child Auditory alerting activities Listening to sounds keeps us in touch with what is going on around us. It isn’t simply our physical abilit..
Continue ReadingSensational Strategies to Strengthen Sensory Skills 101 FUN sensory activities to do with your child Taking a look at visual activities Efficient sensory processing is necessary to navigate life successfully. Visually, that means we need to be ab..
Continue ReadingSensational Strategies to Strengthen Sensory Skills 101 FUN sensory activities to do with your child Powering up proprioception Now that we’ve discussed strengthening activities for tactile and vestibular processing, let’s turn our ..
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