Posts from September, 2010
How To Safely Wear a School Backpack
The American Occupational Therapy Association has published ten tips to avoid backpack-related health problems:
- Never let a child carry more than 15% of his or her body weight. This means a child who weighs 100 pounds shouldn’t wear a backpack heavier than 15 pounds.
- Load heaviest items closest…
Speech/Language Therapy: More than just “r”
When many people think of “speech therapy”, they associate it with treatment for articulation disorders—those children who say “wabbit” for “rabbit” or “Thally” for “Sally”.
While treatment of speech sound disorders is part of what speech-language pathologists (a.k.a. speech…
Avoid Toxic Exposure to give your child the best foundation for growth and learning
Here are some guidelines from Dr. Stephen Barrie:
1. Avoid eating foods that may contain high levels of toxic chemicals
2. While fish are a good source of protein and omega-3 fatty acids, some contain high levels of mercury. Tuna (especially white or albacore), Cod and Mahi Mahi are ones to…Eating Dinner as a Family
Eating dinner as a family with a child with a sensory processing disorder can be especially challenging. The child with sensory defensiveness may be very picky about eating foods with different textures, odors, tastes or appearance. The child with sensory seeking characteristics may have a…