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10 Common Mistakes Pediatric Therapy Mentors Make
Pediatric therapy mentors have an exciting opportunity to become a leader in their field and to hone their clinical skills. However, this experience requires the investment of their time, energy, and resources, so it should not be taken lightly. To make mentorship a positive experience for both you and your mentee, here are 10 common […]
Classroom Transition Ideas – 10 Tips To Improve Transition Time
Do you have students who have difficulty transitioning from one activity to another? Maybe they have a hard time transitioning from the classroom to the therapy room or special class. There are many reasons why a student may have trouble with transitions. Think about all the skills needed for successful transitions: listening skills: students need […]
10 Self-Reflection Questions for the End of the School Year
Self-reflection helps you to analyze your professional and personal growth. By keeping a record of your ideas, reasons, actions, techniques, and assessments you can plan for your future and facilitate a positive outcome. Take a few minutes to look back on the past school year. Use these 10 open-ended questions to ask yourself at the […]
Impulse Control Game for Kids
Are you looking to work on impulse control, focus, and self-regulation in children? This fun and challenging impulse control game for kids can be downloaded for free at the end of the post! If your students or children have trouble focusing, settling down, staying on task, or dealing appropriately with their impulses this is a […]
How to Use Breathing Exercises For Executive Function Skills
Breathing techniques can offer easy-to-practice activities for building basic self-regulation in the body of youngsters and in your classroom. Here are suggestions on how to use breathing exercises for executive function skills. The official definition of executive function is a set of processes that all have to do with managing oneself and one’s resources in […]
5 Everyday Outdoor Activities to Practice Self Regulation Skills
Self-regulation is the ability of a person to tolerate sensations, situations and distress and form appropriate responses to that sensory input. Simply stated, it is the ability to control behavior. The ability to self regulate in children is a predictor for academic abilities. Here are 5 everyday outdoor activities to practice self- regulation skills in […]
Do Kids Need Recess? Heck Yes, and Here is Why!
If you ask children what their favorite school subject is many will respond recess! Unfortunately, unstructured, free play for kids is becoming a thing of the past. Thirty to forty percent of elementary schools in the United States are eliminating, decreasing or considering eliminating recess. (1,2). Some schools are making these decisions due to increased […]
How to Improve Handwriting in Kids – Tips from Dr. Beverly Moskowitz, OTR/L
Many people say that handwriting instruction is no longer a necessity because of the prevalence in the use of gadgets that effectively replace our need to write using traditional writing tools. Dr. Beverly Moskowitz, OTR/L, creator of the Size Matters Handwriting Program, shares with us her thoughts and suggestions on why handwriting instruction is still […]
More Screen Time Associated with Decreased Fine Motor Skills
As technology and screens take a stronger hold on our children’s lives every day, it is important to analyze the relationship between screen time and fine motor skills in preschoolers. Teachers and therapists continue to report that when they observe young children, motor skill development is lacking. Some hypothesize that this is due to an […]
Interventions for Handwriting that Work for Students
Do you see students struggling with handwriting skills on a daily basis? Maybe it is the increased use of technology at a younger age. Perhaps it is the lack of fine motor skill free play during childhood development. Or it even could be from a lack of muscle strength to produce legible writing. Regardless of […]