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Summer Travel Tips
More Than Packing a Bag: Preparing for a Smooth Summer Trip with Your Child Summer travel tips start here, because summer is a fantastic time for family adventures! If you have a child with special needs, creating a travel plan might seem daunting at first. But fear...
Middle School and Handwriting: Part 2 of 2
How to Improve Horrendous Handwriting When All Hope Is Lost PART 2 OF MIDDLE SCHOOL & HANDWRITING When I first learned that I was getting hired in the district where I currently work, I was beyond thrilled. A school district job! It's like winning the lottery!...
Middle School and Handwriting: How to Help Your Child Improve Their Legibility After Elementary School – Part 1
Middle School ANd Handwriting—Part 1 of 2 So many parents lose hope for improving their child's handwriting after elementary school. It definitely can seem hopeless at times. How do you change a habit that has been developed over so many years? There's always the old...
Why Vertical Surfaces Work: The Research Behind One of OT’s Best-Kept Secrets
Walk into most elementary classrooms and you'll see children writing flat on their desks. Worksheets flat. Drawing flat. Coloring flat. Everything flat. Walk into my OT class push-in session and the first thing I do is prop something up. I've been recommending...
Age-by-Age Fine Motor Milestones: What’s Really Normal 📈
A Visual Guide to Pencil Grip Development That Actually Makes Sense Last week, a kindergarten teacher showed me her classroom pencil grasp poster and asked, "Why doesn't this match what I'm seeing with my kids?" She pointed to five different children, each holding...
Busting the Ceiling: How We Made History for NYS School-Based Therapists (And How You Can Too!)
If you’ve spent any time in school-based therapy, you know the drill: you look at the teachers’ salary schedule, you look at your master’s or doctoral degree, you look at your stack of continuing ed certificates… and you feel completely invisible.
I lived that frustration for over two decades. So today feels different. Because the ceiling just cracked.
Physical Therapy Providers Deserve Equal Access to School Leadership: New Research Shows Overwhelming Support for Change
Here’s something that should make every school-based PT and OT practitioner sit up and pay attention: we completed groundbreaking research showing that 94.9% of New York school physical therapy providers believe they should have the opportunity to pursue educational...
STOP Saying “Grasp Doesn’t Matter!” 🛑
Research shows four pencil grasp patterns work equally well, but immature grasps cause fatigue and poor legibility. What OTPs, teachers & parents need to know.