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Nine Ways Your Child Can Soar
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Learning to Write
Have the children practice the components of writing, specifically circles, horizontal, vertical and diagonal lines.
Practice strokes in different mediums to provide sensory feedback, eg tracing on a sand or salt tray or in foam soap.
Demonstrated how the letter or number is made.
Have the…
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…
New Handwriting Group Starting at Emerge
Is your child struggling to learn how to write? Even in this age of electronics, it is important to be able to comfortably and legibly write. Many children are finding themselves facing the demands of writing (and coloring, drawing, and cutting) in the early grades and they do not have the…
School-Based and Clinic-Based Therapy: What’s the Difference?
Is there a difference? Would your child ever need both?
Getting Ready for Back to School
Returning to school is often welcomed by parents, but represents a big change in the lives of many children, even more so when they are starting a new school or program. Check out the article below for lots of good back to school tips.