Give THANKS for Picky Eaters: Tips to help your holiday meal go smoothly Try:holiday foods BEFORE the big day! Introduce your child to the new foods they will have every 2-3 days in the weeks leading up to your holiday feast. Share stories and traditions your family may have around that food. Let your child have control…
5 Reasons to Support Our GoFundMe Intiative
All children can benefit from optimizing movement breaks to support learning in the classroom. Body Activated Learning is understandable and accessible for teachers, staff, and paraprofessionals without confusing terminology. It can be easily integrated with other “Brain Break” tools and customized to each teacher’s classroom needs. Body Activated Learning goes beyond supporting self-regulation to enhancing…
Eat the Rainbow With Your Child
Our March Open House and 5 year anniversary celebration was a success! We enjoyed the opportunity to share information about our programming as well as collaborate with other professionals who work with children with sensory processing disorders. Dr. K. Virdee, ND, a naturopath whose practice is located in Fairfield, CT, shared some great…
Listening is a Life Skill
We live in a multisensory world full of visuals and sound to the point that it can become overloading. It impacts our self-regulation, visual skill development, ability to filter out distractions, and the ability to actively and consciously listen to our friends and family in everyday interactions. This is especially challenging for children with sensory…
Essential Foundations of Fine Motor Skills
As a parent, when you bump into a fellow parent at the community center or local Starbucks, you may find yourself sharing about your child’s firsts…the first time he/she sat up or walked, spoke his/her first words…but not often when your child first held a block or grabbed a Cheerio with a fine pincer grasp….
Essential Foundations of Fine Motor Skills: Activities for Home
Vision Play Ball! Start by throwing a large ball to and from your child, and progress to smaller balls as able. When playing board games, present cards high, low, left, and right to encourage looking and reaching. Using Easels and LARGE paper/posters, create a connect the dot picture or place a vertical column of stickers/images…
He’s not a ‘bad kid’, he has a sensory processing disorder
How our body and brain receives, interprets, organizes, and utilizes sensory information SHOULD be an automatic process that occurs accurately and efficiently, without effort or conscious choice. A sensory processing disorder (SPD) is an “invisible” challenge, characterized by a disorganized way that the nervous systems attempts to understand and make use of sensory information. Considering…
Summer Camps! Just a few considerations…
With low temps and a blanket of snow on the ground, shifting our thoughts to summer may seem unseasonable. Camp registrations, however, will be in full swing very soon. It remains challenging to meet the needs of both parents and children when planning the summer’s activities. Selecting an appropriate camp program is a delicate dance…
3 Family Stressbusters for the Holidays
You walk into the mall and hear the holiday music, see the crowds of families shuffling around carrying bags filled with presents, and smell the festive candles lit at Yankee Candles. You and your children are on your way to see Santa Claus to drop off Christmas lists and hopefully capture a decent photo of…
4 Tips to Survive Thanksgiving with a Picky Eater
Thanksgiving is next week, and if you have a picky eater you may be feeling a little uneasy. While for most, it is a day of family and fun; for the parent of a picky eater, coupling battles over food with the pressure of onlooking family can be almost too much to bear. Fear not!…
