Tips for Peaceful Family Mealtimes Tip One: Never force your child to eat or clean their plate, bargain, punish, threaten, reward, coax, negotiate, or strongly encourage your child to eat. By doing this, you are setting yourself up for a show down with your child and making extra work for yourself. Tip Two: Ignore refusals,…
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….
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…
