Sensory
Sensory Integration: Is Lack of Sensory Integration behind My Child’s Poor Academic Performance? This article provides helpful information about how sensory integration could impact your child’s learning ability in the classroom. Affiliate links are included for your convenience. One of the most common questions parents ask me when they visit our center is “what do you do exactly to help children?” At any given time,...
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Nutrition
Power Foods Kids will Actually Eat to Improve Attention and Memory in the Classroom This article provides helpful information about power foods to improve a child’s memory and attention in school. Affiliate links are included for your convenience. There is a never ending nutritional and fitness hype that creates new article headlines to catch the next reader’s eye. It can be tiring. I think we...
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Sensory
50 Free Sensory Printables and New Sensory Processing 101 This article provides helpful resources provided by the Inspired Treehouse for children with Sensory Processing issues. Affiliate links are included for your convenience. Our friends at Inspired Treehouse just relaunched Sensory Processing 101 as an eBook to help parents, teachers, Occupational Therapists and other professionals with their child or student’s sensory needs. With the relaunch of...
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Motor Skills
Balance and Coordination Activities to Help Kids Attend and Focus on Academic Tasks This article provides helpful information for children who need balance and coordination activities for better attention and focus in the classroom. Affiliate links are included for your convenience. Developing balance and coordination begins almost at birth. As babies develop, they learn to lift their head, roll over and scoot across the floor. Eventually, when...
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Parent's Corner
Recycling: Home Recycling Basics You can Teach Your Kids Integrated Learning Strategies is excited to feature teaching children about recycling 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. Going green is all the rage, but it’s hard to know where to start if you’re...
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Auditory Processing
Energy through our Ears: Why High and Low Frequencies Affect Behavior, Emotions, Speech and Language This article provides helpful information about the energy in our ears and how it affects our child’s learning development. Affiliate links are included for your convenience. In every locker room in the world, no matter the sport, music is always blaring before a big game. This pumps up the athletes...
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Visual Processing
Visual Motor: What are Visual Motor Planning Skills and do they Help My Child Read? This article provides helpful information about your child’s visual motor skills. Affiliate links are included for your convenience. Have you ever thought about the skills and energy it takes just to write the letters in your name or read a few passages from a magazine? For most of us, these...
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Development
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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Education
Studying Abroad: The Top Benefits Of Your Child Studying Abroad Integrated Learning Strategies is excited to feature studying abroad opportunities 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. When it comes to education, many of us are on autopilot. We go to our...
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Education
Cone of Learning: Creating Active Learners through Sensory Integration and Hands-On Experiences This article provides helpful information about the Cone of Learning. Affiliate links are included for your convenience. If you were to walk into a classroom on a college campus, there is a very high chance you would observe many students, sometimes hundreds, listening to a professor lecture and click through a PowerPoint presentation....
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