by JLDTHERAPY | Nov 15, 2017 | Developmental Delay, Fine Motor Activities, Handwriting, Manipulation, Occupational Therapy Ideas, Parenting, Pediatric Occupational Therapy, Pediatric Therapy, Sensory Processing, Special Education, visual perceptual skills
Therapeutic putty is such a great relaxing tool for children and even adults of all ages. It’s a stiff like putty that can be squished, shaped, and makes sounds. This therapeutic putty gets your child’s hand muscles to work helping with fine motor skills, handwriting...
by Jennifer Davis | Oct 18, 2017 | Parenting
It’s Halloween time again! With other parents you watch a crowd of little monsters, mermaids, and pirates running from porch to porch yelling, “Trick-or-treat!” and collecting sweets. But Halloween brings a problem that you didn’t know you had: Trick or treating can...
by JLDTHERAPY | Oct 4, 2017 | Feeding, Parenting, Pediatric Therapy
The American Academy of Pediatrics states is safer to start preparing for solids at around six months of age. For the first six months babies only want to have milk, but after around the sixth-month mark, they naturally get the desire to eat solid foods. In the first...
by JLDTHERAPY | Sep 27, 2017 | Feeding, Parenting, Pediatric Therapy
So, you’re interested in giving your baby real food and skipping all the purees? Baby-led weaning (BLW) is where you expose babies to a variety of different foods without them being mashed or pureed. The reason that most parents decide to do this method vs baby food...
by JLDTHERAPY | Jan 19, 2016 | Occupational Therapy, Parenting, Pediatric Therapy
Handwriting – a necessity towards success: How an Occupational Therapist can help fix poor handwriting! Have you ever looked at someone’s writing and thought to yourself “what does this say”, I know I have. Doctors always get a bad reputation for not having...
by Jennifer Davis | Oct 22, 2015 | Feeding, Parenting, Pediatric Therapy
It Shouldn’t Hurt to Eat: An Introduction to Feeding and Swallowing Disorders Stop and take a minute to think about eating. How many times a day do you eat? How often are your social gatherings centered around food; breakfast with your family, lunch with friends,...
