The summer is quickly coming to an end, and soon children all across the United States will start complaining about something more painful than homework when they head back to school. According to one study of American students ages 11 to 15 years, 64% reported complaints of back pain related to heavy backpacks. In fact more than half of students...
It’s summer, and it’s no big surprise that tempers can rise just as easily as the temperature when children are hot, tired, and exhausted from the heat. Parents can find themselves in situations when they feel their blood boiling as well. So it helps to be mentally prepared for those special moments when your child tests your tolerance. As a...
Summertime is a great opportunity for children to explore and challenge their growing bodies to reach new heights. I is also a time when safety is of great importance. June is National Safety Month and the greatest concern parents have in the summertime is heat exposure. There are numerous articles that discuss hot car and water safety as well as...
Learning to write is a milestone in the childhood experience of almost all typically developing children. Still, it is achieved with great effort and struggle for many. Countless products sold in stores often complicate the task for parents by combining uppercase and lowercase letters and encouraging the printing of 112 letters in an alphabetical yet developmentally arbitrary fashion. This can...
April is the time of year when occupational therapists (OT’s) gets their time to shine in the national spotlight… and it is needed. The average person is not familiar with OT’s unless he/she or a family member has had a personal experience. It is even more unlikely that there is a true understanding of what an occupational therapist (OT) does when disability or disease it...