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Five Fun Ways to Use Picture Books 📖

We absolutely love using picture books in our sessions to spark conversations, point to pictures, practice making sounds, describe characters & so much more!

What’s your child’s favorite book? - Let’s read it together! Contact us at any time for more information or to schedule a session! 🌟

Client Review 💕

Hearing these words makes every second even more rewarding, we truly love what we do & are so grateful that you share your kiddies with us!

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Handwriting ✏️

We often don’t realize that there’s more to writing than just lines & letters .. skills like these are super important to create a strong foundation for pre-handwriting practice!

Interested in learning more? Contact us at any time for more information or to schedule a session! 🌟

Speech & Language Development 💭

All new parents wonder when their child will start talking, what we sometimes don’t realize is that there are a wide variety of skills that our babies use as building blocks (with our help of course) to help develop speech & language.

Here’s a little chart to help answer some questions, although all children do develop & master skills at different times!

Save this post or contact us for more information, we’re always here to help! 🌟

Pre-Language Skills ✨

We wouldn’t expect our kiddies to run before they can walk, so we can’t expect them to speak before they’re exposed to pre-language skills!

Try implementing these easy tips to encourage first words! As always, feel free to contact us with any questions or concerns 🌟

Self-Feeding Tips🍴

Because feeding struggles can lead to larger issues, frustrations, throwing, etc. it’s important to make it as fun & accessible as possible. Especially when first learning & exploring how to self feed ..

Here’s an easy tip on how to make slippery foods more texturized & manageable for our little ones!

We’re here to help! Try this out & if you ever have any questions or concerns, contact us at any time! 🌟

Improving Handwriting Skills ✍🏻

. requires building a strong foundation!

While you may think that practice & repetition is what improves handwriting, instead it’s actually working on mastering other skill sets such as fine motor skills & shoulder stability, that will help naturally aide & develop better writing. Other skills include finger isolation, bilateral coordination, hand strength & so on.

There’s so many creative & fun ways to practice! It doesn’t ever have to be repetitive or boring .. & the handwriting improvement will follow!

We hope this helps - please contact us at any time with any questions or concerns! 🌟

Self- Advocacy + Social Skills For Beginners 💭

Sometimes we forget that teaching self- advocacy skills are just as important as social skills! These skills help our kiddies find & use their voice, learn how to communicate, & helps foster early language.

Have any questions or concerns? Contact us at any time for more information or to schedule a session! 🌟

One Toy, Three Ways to Play! 🧩

We love getting creative & using all of our favorite toys here in so many different ways .. it’s also important & helpful to adjust the way we play per session to help our little ones achieve their personal goals!

We hope everyone had a happy & healthy new year! Can’t wait to see all our little ones & to meet all of our new friends this year! 🌟

Client Review 💕

Hearing these words makes every second even more rewarding, we truly love what we do & are so grateful that you share you kiddies with us!

Leave us a review, we’d love to hear from you! 🌟

Adapting Holiday Activities 🍪🎄❄️

Here’s a few easy ways that occupational therapists can help adapt common holiday activities for our kiddies with certain sensitivities!

We all have our difficulties & there’s a way to adapt them all! We hope everyone is enjoying this holiday season & celebrating with their loved ones!

We hope these tips help! Follow along for more information or to schedule a session with us! 🌟