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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Executive Functioning
Processing Speed: Why Slow Processing Speed Makes Simple Tasks Daunting for Kids This article provides helpful information about slow processing speed in the classroom and at home. Affiliate links are included for your convenience. Max, a 7-year-old boy, frequently has trouble executing the most basic daily tasks. He displays attention problems in school and gets distracted regularly from the activity he is supposed to be...
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Auditory Processing
Auditory Learning: 5 Steps of Hearing vs. Listening in the Classroom This article provides helpful information for auditory learning in the classroom. Affiliate links are included for your convenience. As an English teacher, I have been through state mandated testing for a few years now. Each year when my student’s tests scores come back, the section they usually perform the lowest in is listening skills....
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Education
Child Education: Why Understanding is the Strongest Tool in Helping Your Child’s Education Integrated Learning Strategies is excited to feature child education 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. Most people nowadays will admit that there’s something quite off about the...
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Sensory
Sensory Routine: Back To School Nightly Routine to Help Sensory Kids This article provides helpful sensory routine information for sensory children that need special back to school routines to help them better in school. Affiliate links included for your convenience. I’ve done it enough times, I know I’m not alone. Back to school time occasionally creeps up on us, other times it knocks us down hard. Going...
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Fine Motor
Handwriting Development: When Handwriting Milestones aren’t Developed the “Write” Way, Brain-Building Activity Suffers This article provides helpful information about handwriting development and handwriting milestones for better learning development and brain activity. When you sit down to write a shopping list or a thank you card, you may not realize it, but you are in the process of one of the most complex behaviors that a...
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Sensory
Sensory Sensitivities: Why My Child Shows Sensory Defensiveness to Odors, Strong Smells and Detergents This article provides helpful information about your child’s sensory sensitivities and how they can be affected in the classroom if they struggle with sensory defensiveness. Affiliate links are included for your convenience. Our sense of smell is working all day long. Many people only notice scents when they are extreme or...
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Education
The Advantages of Attending a Boarding School Integrated Learning Strategies is excited to feature alternative school opportunities for children in this guest post. While many of the boarding school 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 prior to university, few parents worry about where...
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