Channeling your child’s inner “yogi” can be an easy and fun activity that has numerous benefits for the mind and body. Although yoga helps with strengthening and flexibility, it can also provide children with important life skills to help them succeed. Yoga can improve a child’s emotional regulation, decrease feelings of anxiety, boost their self-esteem,...

Sucking in newborns is a reflexive behavior. Not only does this aide in providing the baby nourishment, but it is also soothing and calming. Pacifier use in newborns is not necessarily problematic. ‘ It soothes otherwise fussy little ones and gives good “practice time” for nutritive sucking, especially for those infants that are struggling with...

Benefits and Challenges There is no doubt that teletherapy has been a great alternative when the pandemic struck. This approach allowed clients to continue with their treatment plans, make progress towards their goals, all while limiting exposure to COVID-19. Not to mention, it allowed clinicians to continue serving our families, ensuring that we all still...

Heavy work is any kind of activity that pushes or pulls against the body. Heavy work involves a sense known as proprioception. Proprioception also known as kinesthesia, is the sense of movement, action, and location regarding to the body’s positioning in space. When children engage in heavy work messages are sent from receptors in their...

Your doctor says your child has hypotonia or “low tone”, but what exactly does that mean, and how does it affect your child’s development? Hypotonia is a medical term that means decreased muscle tone. Everyone is born with an individualized amount of muscle tone, which is the level of stiffness and tension of a muscle...

As your child gains independence and is learning to complete dressing activities on their own, clothing fasteners may be a tricky and frustrating skill for them to master because they involve many skills. Completing clothing fasteners, such as buttons and zippers, require refined fine motor skills and grasp patterns, visual motor skill and bilateral coordination...

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