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Parents! Are you Dreading the Holiday Meltdown?
We’ve all been there, right? You are at a birthday party or a holiday party and your child has a meltdown. You eventually have to make the decision to pack your whole family and go home. If you are a parent of a child who gets easily overwhelmed in a busy and noisy environments where…
Thanksgiving Duck Craft
This post is from one of the sensational teens who come to Sensational Achievements. Enjoy! Not everybody eats turkey for thanksgiving. Some people eat duck. My family is from China. We eat duck. So i decided to make a duck hat instead of a turkey hat for Thanksgiving. Now i am going to teach you…
Do you have a Love – Hate Relationship with Technology?
As a parent, I struggle with the balance between technology and getting my child out, active and engaged. It seems like our children prefer iPads over hanging out with friends face to face or going out on a walk to explore. If you are a parent of a child with additional learning needs, is on…
Addressing Dysgraphia and Visual Motor Deficits in Children
When someone says your child has a visual motor problem, there are often some underlying elements that contribute to the presentation of the visual motor deficit. Visual motor issues may not just be from difficulties with visual perception or integrating vision with motor demands. In this article, I will discuss different reasons your child may…
5 Gift Ideas to Keep Kids Active Indoors
Parents are always looking for ways to keep their kids active in the winter. Unfortunalty, this winter we can’t rely on visiting bowling alleys or trampoline parks as we have in the past and there is no guarantee of snow for snowman building, and, let’s face it – it can get pretty cold the further…
Routines for Managing a New Reality during the COVID-19 Pandemic
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7 Classroom Ideas for Sensational Teachers
by Aubrey Schmalle OTR/L How important is it that my classroom is “sensory friendly” and digitally aware? Every year, there are many blog posts encouraging you to set-up a sensory friendly classroom. And some of you may be asking, why focus on this when the children in my classroom have so many different learning needs? …
Understanding dyslexia and sensory processing
Children with dyslexia often have motion-processing disorders and may have an overlapping diagnosis of Developmental Coordination Disorder. It is important to understand how the brain and body work together to support reading skill development in order to make sure that you are engaging a child with dyslexia in activities that are going to support development…
Rethinking Sensory Diets for Teens
Sensory Diets are often recommended to help students maintain optimal regulation and attention in the school setting when children are in preschool and elementary school. As children age, their interests and social awareness evolve. This also means that sometimes, what started out as a solid and supportive plan initiated at a child’s PPT meeting becomes…
