Worried about your baby’s development? Here’s how Pediatric Occupational Therapy can help!
As a parent, you want to ensure that your baby is reaching their developmental milestones on time and growing up healthy and happy. However, some babies may require additional help to develop the skills they need to grow and develop. This is where pediatric...
Making the Grade: How to Help Your Child Who Can’t or Won’t Go to School
As a parent or caregiver, watching your child struggle with school and/or refuse to go can be incredibly difficult. School refusal behavior is characterized by a child's persistent and excessive avoidance of school or difficulty remaining in school for an entire day....
Boom! Pop! Fizz! How to Make the 4th of July Fun for Kids with Auditory Sensitivity
Auditory defensiveness, also known as hypersensitivity to sound, can be a challenging condition for children and their families. This condition can cause children to become overwhelmed and anxious in loud or noisy environments, leading to behavioral issues and...
Traveling with Kids with Sensory Processing Disorder: Tips and Strategies
Traveling with kids can be an exciting and enriching experience for families. However, for parents of children with sensory processing disorder (SPD), traveling can present unique challenges. SPD is a condition that affects how individuals process sensory information....
Understanding ARFID and PFD: A Guide for Parents and Caregivers
As a parent or caregiver, it can be difficult to watch your child struggle with eating. While picky eating is common in young children, for some children picky eating doesn’t go away. Avoidant Restrictive Food Intake Disorder (ARFID) and Pediatric Feeding Disorder...
Our Favorite Messy Play
Our sensory system constantly takes in information from our environment. For a child who is sensitive to tactile, or touch inputs, making it through their daily routines can be challenging. Activities that are normal parts of a child’s day can become very stressful. ...
My child isn’t eating well: could it be a tongue tie?
Short answer: Yes! Tongue-tie is a relatively common condition. The way the tongue moves has a direct impact on how a baby will breastfeed and/or bottle feed. As children transition to solid foods, it can affect the variety of foods they will safely be able to eat and...
Understanding Primitive Reflexes Impact on Child Development
Kristen lectured about 400 people on primitive reflexes in February. Here is some of the information that was shared. Primitive reflexes have become somewhat of a “hot topic” lately. If you do an internet search on “primitive reflexes”, you get over 1 million hits! As...
Promote Your Baby’s Development Through Play
Bringing home a new baby can be wonderful, beautiful, and overwhelming. Once you settle into a routine, there is so much opportunity to engage and play with your baby that can help promote overall development and learning. Sifting through websites can provide...