by Miss Jaime | OT Advocacy
With CSEA President, Charles McNutly, who championed my case. CSEA Unit 7551 is the Levittown Unit of the Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA), operating under the Nassau Education Local 865 in New York. This union unit represents non-instructional school...
by Miss Jaime | Grip/Grasp
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...
by Miss Jaime | Grip/Grasp
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...
by Miss Jaime | Ask an OT, OT Advocacy
If you’ve been in the school-based therapy world for more than a minute, you know the feeling of looking at the teachers’ salary schedule, looking at your master’s or doctoral degree, looking at your mountains of specialized continuing...
by Miss Jaime | OT Advocacy, School Services: OT, Special Educ
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...
by Miss Jaime | Fine Motor & Bilateral Skills, Grip/Grasp, Handwriting & Visual Motor Skills, School Services: OT
The Truth About Pencil Grip Research That Every OTP, Teacher, and Parent Needs to Know I cannot tell you how many times I’ve heard it in IEP meetings, teacher lounges, and even OT conferences: “Well, research shows that grasp doesn’t really matter...
