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…
Scoop on Praxis and Executive Function
What is the Difference Between Praxis and Executive Function? Could a Person have Difficulties with Both? Executive function is a general umbrella term used to describe a variety of cognitive skills involving self-regulation, mental control of behavior/decision-making, attention, working memory, cognitive flexibility, forward thinking, planning and organization. Dr. Teresa-May Benson, a well known researcher in…
The Praxis of Handwriting
Does handwriting impact the learning process in school? Absolutely! With handwriting becoming obsolete after learning to write in Kindergarten the focus on written communication in school has been for students to become more proficient with the keyboard. With the COVID Pandemic, children rushed full speed into a digital world, some of them missing out on…
Special Presentation: Sensory Integration – Theory & Practice
Presented by Aubrey Schmalle, OTR/L This in-service will give parents and professionals a basic understanding of sensory integration theory and the impact that deficits in sensory processing have on behavior, academics and skill development. Thursday, October 16, 2014 at 7 – 9 pm 1011 High Ridge Road, 2nd Floor Stamford, CT This presentation is…
Is it really ADHD?
Does my child have ADHD? During a parent teacher conference a teacher shared with a parent that her child has some of the behaviors associated with the diagnosis- looking around the room, having a hard time concentrating on work, being off task ( eg. getting a drink, going to the bathroom, staring out the window),…
Sensory Processing & Behavior: Is there something else going on?
Have you ever been told that your child is frequently “off-task” at school or appears to be “not listening”? When you talk to your child about this, he/she responds by saying “I hate school” “I don’t want to go” or “It was Joey’s fault.” Reward and motivation charts don’t seem to work and the teacher…