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At Associates in Pediatric Therapy, we proudly offer teletherapy as an option for your child’s therapy services. But what is “teletherapy” and what can patients and caregivers expect from this type of appointment? Teletherapy is a virtual telehealth appointment that your child can participate in from home. They will be able to interact with their […]
Crawling and Child Development Crawling is an important milestone in a child’s development. It allows your child to get from one place to another, but did you know that there are other important benefits of crawling besides movement? Ways to promote crawling: Other ways to promote weight bearing through UE: When picking activities to do, […]
Let’s Play! Why is play-based therapy so effective? Because it is a natural way to target speech and language skills by incorporating highly motivating activities, using a variety of learning styles, and following the child’s lead. Spending 15-20 minutes a day playing one-on-one with your child can help promote vocabulary skills, learn social rules, and […]
Children receive lots of different sensory inputs while attending school: auditory input through peers, bell sounds, and teacher, visual input through posters and images on the classroom walls, looking around in the halls, and exploring all the play options on the playground, vestibular and proprioceptive input through playing on the playground or in gym class, […]
What are executive functioning skills? Executive functions are a set of mental skills we use to learn, play, and successfully participate in day-to-day activities. 10 Key Executive Function Skills What Does Executive Dysfunction Look Like? How Can Occupational Therapy Help? Executive function skills play a big role in our ability to complete day-to-day tasks. Therefore, […]
Both motor and vocal tics can significantly interfere with one’s quality of life. For example, a child may feel embarrassed or anxious when all eyes are on them (i.e., sports, reading in class, etc.), get in trouble for disrupting class, or avoid tasks that cause an increase in their tics. Because tics can impede a […]
Preschool aged kids range from 3-5 years old. During this time, children go through a period of learning and refining gross motor skills, starting with basic skills such as running and jumping to advanced skills like skipping and jumping while turning. The checkpoints listed below are loosely taken from a standardized test, in which each […]
What are Primitive Reflexes? Automatic motor responses that originate from our primitive or survival brain. Why does Integration of Reflexes Matter? Integration of primitive reflexes lay the foundation for higher level learning. Retained primitive reflexes or active primitive reflexes can interfere with the development of more mature, voluntary movement patterns including postural reflexes, balance, ability […]
For children who are learning language, play is one of the most impactful activities that you can use to target skills at home. Play is how our children first experience the world around them. They truly are sponges and absorb so much from our interactions with them. There are several strategies that you can use […]
This is a common question that is often asked of a pediatric OT when working with kids ages birth to 6 years of age. To answer this question let’s first look at some red flags that may indicate a concern in a child’s grasp development and then discuss the typical sequence of grasp development in […]