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How to Adapt Buttoning and Zipping For Your Child
Buttoning and Zipping can be stressful and difficult to learn. Check out these OT tricks to adapt buttons and zippers for your kid! Busy parents on the go have their plate full in the morning. Breakfast, washing up, brushing teeth, and finding backpacks all help...
How to Motivate Your Child With Autism – 5 OT secrets
5 Ways to Understand what Motivates a Child with Autism Spectrum Disorder Today we have a guest post from Occupational Therapist Hope Caracci. Hope specializes in the evaluation and treatment of children with Autism Spectrum Disorders and Sensory Processing...
Best Baby Shower Gift EVER and it’s Not on the Registry
Baby shower gifts can be so dull and boring. Finally, a different personal baby shower gift that the new mom definitely didn’t register for, The Best Baby Shower Gift Ever!I have a confession: I hate baby showers. And bridal showers, too. I know it makes me a...
Your Child With Special Needs: How to Conquer Independent Bathing
Your child with special needs: How to conquer independent bathing 20 plus Occupational Therapy tips and strategies to facilitate independent showering and bathing for your child with special needs “I have no time to myself. Ever. My other kids were at least...
The App that will make You a Hero to your Dysgraphic Students
Students who struggle with getting their thoughts on paper and HATE writing will LOVE this game-changing app called SnapType Pro. With two weeks left of school, the middle school was HOT and sticky. The smell of sweaty teenagers who just didn't want to be in school...
How To Bring Your OT App Invention To Life
*This post contains affiliate links INVENTING SNAPTYPE Amberlynn Slavin, a college student in an Occupational Therapy program, came up with this amazing idea and then brought it to fruition. I find myself brimming with ideas, but I've still never invented anything!...