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The Joy of Challenge

May 23, 2023 The Occuplaytional Therapist Comments Off on The Joy of Challenge

I had a student recently who I wanted to give a fidget to. He already had a fidget for his classroom, but I had recently got a big bag of fidgets and found a particular […]

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Paradise Island App

April 2, 2023 The Occuplaytional Therapist Comments Off on Paradise Island App

Compared to the other two apps I’ve named, Forest and Finch, this one is much more of a game and also much much simpler in function. I believe it was designed for children and young […]

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Finch App

April 1, 2023 The Occuplaytional Therapist Comments Off on Finch App

Continuing my series about the apps I use in my everyday life:  FINCH This is my current app obsession. Finch is a little virtual bird. You set goals in the app for taking care of […]

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Forest App

March 31, 2023 The Occuplaytional Therapist Comments Off on Forest App

Those who have followed this page for awhile know that sometimes I talk about my own journeys with becoming more self-aware of my own needs and what’s going on in my own body, since I […]

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Stars and Rainbows

March 11, 2023 The Occuplaytional Therapist Comments Off on Stars and Rainbows

(From the archives of my own personal FB page, a story from when I was an early therapist. I would do some things differently now, but I still appreciated the story.) *** I have a […]

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