Development
Is My Child Missing Important Tactile Experiences for Emotional and Social Development? This article provides information on how tactile experiences can help your child’s learning development. Affiliate links are included for your convenience. You may have heard about the importance of sensory experiences and how important they for your child’s learning development. How your child uses each of their senses during playtime, mealtime and school...
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Studies Show Kids that Use Tray Walkers are Delayed in Mental and Motor Skills This article provides helpful information about tray walkers and your child’s development. Affiliate links are included for your convenience. Checklist also included below. It’s amazing how some of the simplest milestones during your child’s development can become some of the most critical for their learning development down the road. Most of...
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Creativity Is The Key To Unlock The Best In People Integrated Learning Strategies is excited to feature how to unlock creativity in kids in this guest post. While many of the recommendations below are great for select children and parents, some accommodations or exceptions may be made for children with learning challenges and learning disabilities. For Einstein, creativity was the most important thing that the human brain...
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Tummy Time: Brain-Building Exercises for the Baby that Hates Tummy Time This article provides helpful tummy time exercises for babies that hate to be in the prone position. Affiliate links and free printables are included for your convenience. It’s not uncommon for babies to hate tummy time. Many parents think because their baby cries or fusses when they try to lay their baby on the...
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Cup Stacking: Studies Show Cup Stacking Activities Improve Reading Test Scores and Cross-Patterning Brain Development This article provides information on the benefits of cup stacking activities and the impact it can have on brain building for higher learning. Affiliate links are included for your convenience. I recently walked into an after school program of five and 6-year-olds and saw a large group of kids sitting...
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Intelligences Checklist: 8 Child Intelligences that Can Weaken or Strengthen a Child’s Learning This article provides a helpful intelligences checklist to determine where your child learns best and where their strengths and weaknesses may be in the classroom. Affiliate links are included for your convenience. For so many years, the IQ test ruled the world. Your intelligence could be measured in a single number, and...
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Important Books and Resources for Occupational Therapists, Parents and Educators This article provides helpful books and resources for improving your child’s learning development. Affiliate links are included for your convenience. We often receive requests from parents, educators, Occupational Therapists, Pediatric Therapists and other professionals for books and resources we use to help our students succeed at home and at school. Several of the resources we use...
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Foundational Milestones for Reading: Development of the Eyes, Ears and Neck This article discusses important foundational milestones for reading and writing. Affiliate links are included for your convenience. At one month old, an infant has already adjusted to numerous sensations and has started to formulate responses to these sensations. One of the more important sensations that a baby learns to respond to is the sensations...
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Fidget Toys for Better Attention and Focus in the Classroom This article provides helpful fidget toys to improve your child’s attention and focus in the classroom. Affiliate links are included for your convenience. It’s usually hard for any child to attend and focus through an entire day of school, but for some it’s even harder, especially if they struggle with Sensory Processing Disorders, ADHD, Dyslexia,...
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Brain: How to Rewire the Brain from Home This article provides helpful information how to rewire the brain using handwriting exercises at home. As more parents, teachers and friends become aware of how we help children perform better in the classroom, they ask what tools and resources are available to help their children at home when they aren’t in school. Because so many of the...
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