The OT Butterfly Blog is full of educational resources about development, insights on sensory processing and simple activities for parents to do at home with their neurodivergent child.
Aside from sensory integration and a sensory diet to follow at home, these games/activities below provide good opportunity to practice graded force skills. [continue reading]
*this post contains affiliate links Toddlers are the most patient, logical human beings on this planet. Said no one, ever. [continue reading]
I’d like to preface this post to reminding non-OT readers that, while we are sometimes known as “handwriting experts”, OTs [continue reading]
Ever wish you could rewind and inject some wisdom into your old self, courtesy of a more wise, experienced, new [continue reading]
Heavy work is good for the soul. I repeat. Heavy work. Is good. For. The. Soul. If you know anything [continue reading]
Handwriting and letter formation become integrated faster and with more ease when practiced in a multi-sensory fashion. Hands on learning [continue reading]
As an OT and a Mom, I find that it’s really difficult (almost impossible) to turn one of those switches [continue reading]
Tactile Defensiveness is fancy OT lingo for being hypersensitive to the touch sensation. People who experience tactile defensiveness have an [continue reading]
Read New Post about why I don’t use this lesson anymore! If you are a parent, or work with kids, [continue reading]
One of the most popular questions I’m asked as is: “What kind of grasp should my toddler have at this [continue reading]
Recently, I’ve been feeling so guilty with all the time and effort I’ve been putting into planning fun treatment sessions for my clients and then coming home to read the same book and play the same picnic game with my 21 month old. I found a little inspiration with the Easter theme and wanted to plan an Easter activity for toddlers. So, I got a little excited when I went to the Target dollar section and found these super cute Easter eggs, crinkle paper fillers and rubber porcupine balls! It had sensory bin screaming all over it. Then I grabbed a set of magnet letters, which I had been meaning to purchase for quite some time, and before I knew it, I had my afternoon mommy-OT date planned for my little one. [continue reading]
*This text contains affiliate links I am a sucker for holiday themed activities with kids. Spring is probably my 2nd [continue reading]
So you’re probably here because you’ve been told, or have realized yourself (maybe from reading about 5 common signs your [continue reading]
Is it just me, or do OTs LOVE that buzz phrase “crossing midline”? It feels like a Jeopardy answer someone [continue reading]
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