Occupational therapy is a unique profession which looks at a holistic approach towards a person, i.e., not only at the reasons a person’s participation in activities has been impacted, but also at their roles and environment. Occupational therapists help people across their lifespan Read more…
Book reading is a fantastic place to learn about the meaning of words and the pleasure of sharing a story. Turning reading into an interactive experience is the key to the development of communication. One of the best things about Read more…
Kids love playing with Lego. It’s not just because the colourful blocks are fun to play with, but because they can invent and create new worlds, structures, and scenarios. Lego bricks are educational toys that inspire creativity in kids. They Read more…
Why are our senses important? Sensory development is important for a child’s overall health and wellbeing. It forms the foundation of a child’s learning and perception. Sensory systems do not develop in isolation. Sensory Integration (SI) was introduced in the Read more…
Rudoph and Link in 2002 found that feeding disorders occur in 25-35% of developmentally normal children and 40-70% of children with developmental disabilities and/or chronic medical conditions. Looking at this study, it is obvious that feeding disorders are more common Read more…
Music and rhythm have been shown to activate the whole brain, and not just the right hemisphere, as originally thought. In 2011, researchers from the Academy of Finland developed a ground-breaking new method that allows to study how the brain Read more…
The brain is the main beneficiary of any kind of aerobic activity. There is a strong brain-body connection. Hence, it is important to remember that learning doesn’t happen from the neck up, but from the feet up! (Michael Kuczala, TEDxAshburn). Read more…
Play has often been called the “work of children” (American Academy of Pediatrics, 2007). Is there anything that sounds more joyful than the sound of kids at play? The happiness on their faces and the sound of bliss in their Read more…
‘Memory’ is a label for a diverse set of cognitive capacities by which humans and perhaps other animals retain information and reconstruct past experiences, usually for present purposes. Our particular abilities to conjure up long-gone episodes of our lives are Read more…
The term Dyspraxia was derived from the word ‘Praxis’ which means “the ability to perform intentional movements or simple gestures”, like playing with toys, using tools (including a pencil or a fork), building a structure (like a toy block tower or a Read more…