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Activities

Coloring Up (Like Michaelangelo!)

January 12, 2023 The Occuplaytional Therapist Comments Off on Coloring Up (Like Michaelangelo!)

More creative treatment ideas… I really wanted to get a specific child to draw or write on a lateral surface or even on a vertical surface above their head! Writing and drawing in these creative […]

At Home

Babies Can Play Independently

January 12, 2023 The Occuplaytional Therapist Comments Off on Babies Can Play Independently

There are a lot of ideas that are popular right now, many of which get lumped under the header of “attachment parenting”, which suggest (either directly or indirectly) that babies and toddlers and children are, […]

At Home

Reward Charts

January 12, 2023 The Occuplaytional Therapist Comments Off on Reward Charts

Two people have asked me questions about reward charts in the last week or so, so that seemed like a reasonable question to answer next. The reason for both of them asking it was because […]

Philosophy

AAC Babbling & Repeated Noise

January 12, 2023 The Occuplaytional Therapist Comments Off on AAC Babbling & Repeated Noise

In my recent experiment with consulting with a few people via email, I received this lovely question! The asker was asking about their child specifically, and their child is a young adult. However, the specifics […]

Philosophy

Describing Without Judging

January 12, 2023 The Occuplaytional Therapist Comments Off on Describing Without Judging

If I could get everybody in the world to learn one concept about the way they interact with children…well, actually, I have about a bazillion that I might choose from. I’m pretty bad at choosing. […]

Activities

Wizard Scrolls

January 11, 2023 The Occuplaytional Therapist Comments Off on Wizard Scrolls

A multi-week activity: a student and I have been working on making “wizard scrolls”. First we used teabags, coffee grounds, and brown markers to test which would make the best “aged paper” by staining them […]

Activities

Dinosaur Dig

January 11, 2023 The Occuplaytional Therapist Comments Off on Dinosaur Dig

One of the stations in my therapy gym right now is a dinosaur dig. I have had this idea in my mind for a long time and finally had time to construct it during the […]

Humor

Restaurant Review

January 8, 2023 The Occuplaytional Therapist Comments Off on Restaurant Review

This morning my kids invited me to a restaurant. Let’s start with the positive. The owners are clearly passionate about this restaurant, and even about personalizing it to their customers—as soon as I stepped up […]

Autism

Social Skills for Neurotypicals

January 8, 2023 The Occuplaytional Therapist Comments Off on Social Skills for Neurotypicals

When you start to frame autism, ADHD, or other neurodivergences as really and truly just a difference instead of a disorder… It leaves space for realizing things like how the “social skills” that we teach […]

At School

“Make” Them Write

January 8, 2023 The Occuplaytional Therapist Comments Off on “Make” Them Write

I said this a few days ago as part of a larger post, and I liked it so much I decided it needed its own post. 😉 Some kids are interested in “writing” when they’re […]

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