by Marie Pabica | Sep 23, 2021 | Sensory Processing
Who experiences sensory processing disorders (SPD)? Did you know that 1 in 6 children experience sensory symptoms that interfere with daily life? Children with Sensory Processing Disorder (also called Sensory Integration Dysfunction) will be so severely affected by...
by Jennifer Davis | Nov 23, 2020 | Pediatric Therapy, Sensory Processing
Sensory Activities are activities that stimulates your child’s five sense, namely sense of smell, touch, sight, hearing and listening. In occupational therapy, we add two more senses- vestibular and proprioceptive sense. Our vestibular sense is our sense of...
by Jennifer Davis | Feb 11, 2018 | Books, Communication, Parenting, Pediatric Therapy, Sensory Processing, Whole Body Listening
Do you find yourself frustrated when trying to get your child with autism to listen to you? Whole body listening is a key tool that parents like you can use to help your child learn the basic expectations for appropriate communication behaviors. The book Whole Body...
by Jennifer Davis | Jan 31, 2018 | Developmental Delay, Feeding, Fine Motor Activities, Manipulation, Occupational Therapy, Occupational Therapy Ideas, Parenting, Pediatric Occupational Therapy, Pediatric Therapy, Sensory Processing, Special Education, visual perceptual skills
If you have a picky eater with autism, please know that you are not alone. Do you struggle to get them to eat the food you cook? Do you find yourself getting frustrated at the approaches you take that don’t seem to be helping? Food aversion is very common. It’s...
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 JLDTHERAPY | Nov 1, 2017 | Developmental Delay, Feeding, Fine Motor Activities, Manipulation, Occupational Therapy, Pediatric Occupational Therapy, Pediatric Therapy, Sensory Processing
Many new moms have this question in mind, “Is my baby ready to make the transition to table food?.” Somewhere even when they know that their baby is ready, they don’t really know how to make the change. You must be thinking it’s high time to transit your baby...
