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Executive Function in Children – Deficits and Academic Difficulties
Are you familiar with the importance of the brain development of executive function in children? The skills are essential for students to thrive in the school setting. A recent research article did a longitudinal study examining executive function in children who were kindergarten age through third grade with academic difficulties. Executive Function in Children Executive […]
Evidence-Based Behavior Interventions to Help Students Succeed
Teachers, therapists, and parents oftentimes work very hard to create positive, productive, and fun learning environments for our children. Let’s face it – students are not always compliant. And on occasion, there are students who have behavioral difficulties. Here are several low intensity, evidence-based behavior interventions that teachers and parents can do to help students […]
Calm Down Corner Ideas – Free Printables
Do you want to create a space in your classroom or home to help children to calm down? These calm down corner ideas are all FREE to print to help your students take a break. Calm Down Corner Ideas to Print and Use This Just Breathe poster is perfect to set the mood in the […]
September 2019 Your Therapy Source Digital Magazine
The September 2019 Your Therapy Source Digital Magazine has been published. Table of Contents MINDFUL BREATHING FOR KIDS IS THERE A LOSS OF SPATIAL AWARENESS IN CHILDREN? HOW TO GET CHILDREN WITH AUTISM TO SLEEP SCHOOL-BASED OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY – TIPS FOR EFFECTIVE SERVICE DELIVERY FREE WEBINAR ON DATA COLLECTION IN SCHOOLS HANDWRITING VERSUS TYPING AND […]
Multisensory First Day of School Activities
In search of first day of school activities? Sure you can do the usual, sit down, and share about summer OR you can jazz it up and add in fine motor, gross motor, handwriting, and proprioceptive input! Maybe you have already started the school year but don’t worry these first days of school activities are […]
Poor Executive Function Skills? Try Using Chaining
Do you work with clients who struggle with working memory, focus, organizational skills, planning, impulse control or shifting from one task to another? This may be a sign of poor executive function skills. It can be very difficult to manage the day to day tasks or learn new skills when executive function disorder is present. […]
Free Differentiated Morning Meeting Calendar Time Printables
Free Differentiated Morning Meeting Calendar Work Printables These FREE morning meeting calendar work printables, created by school-based Occupational Therapist Thia Triggs, provide differentiated instruction for students to participate during calendar time and morning work. This freebie is great for individual, group and contextually based therapy sessions. Reinforce your student’s IEP math and ELA goals while […]
Student Strengths in the Classroom – Find the Positive
We have all witnessed it. Students with special needs often receive negative comments or misconstrued negative comments. Day after day, students or parents are frequently told to fix this, increase this or improve that. How about finding the positive and looking for student strengths in the classroom? When we encourage students that they can do […]
Positive Communication with Parents and Staff This School Year
There are many members of the special education team such as students, parents, teachers, teachers assistants, administrators, and related service providers. Occupational and physical therapists usually make up a small but important group of the special education team. Some team members, especially therapists, can have a varied caseload with students from different classrooms, grades […]
Handwriting versus Typing and Writing Skills
Recent research in Reading and Writing answered the question of handwriting versus typing and writing performance. To begin with, they examined the contribution of handwriting fluency to writing performance. The second part of the research explored the relationship between handwriting and keyboarding and compared their contributions to writing. Results of the Study on Handwriting Versus […]