Holiday Gift Guide 2018 Part 3
All right, we are on to part 3 of our therapist recommended toys for this holiday season! For those...
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Holiday Gift Guide 2018 Part 2
We’re back with Part 2 of our therapist recommended toys for gifts and why they are recommending...
Holiday Gift Guide 2018 Part 1
Hi! It’s that time of year again. Many families are asking us for ideas of gifts to get for their...
Teaching Shoe Tying – A Tool
We are lucky enough to have an OT back on staff and we have been loving the collaboration and idea...
Furniture Glider Fun (working on motor control)
We frequently use furniture gliders with our kids. They have the benefit of adding challenge to...
5 Ways to Use a Physioball
The Physioball is a great piece of equipment for kids of all ages! It can be used to strengthen...
Vision and Balance
We recently talked about using eye masks to work on balance in one of our instagram stories. Here...
Halloween Spider Web
In the spirit of Halloween we decided to revisit one of our previous activities that we have...
Muscles – Stretching to New Lengths
I love being able to come up with analogies to help explain concepts that may be hard to...
Working on Balance Reactions
I was walking around the clinic yesterday and noticed a therapist getting a child to stand in a...