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Musculoskeletal Problems in Obese Children
Annals of Family Medicine published research on self reported musculoskeletal problems in obese and overweight children. They studied 2459 children ages 2-11 years old of which 4.1% were overweight or obese. The overweight and obese children self reported significantly more musculoskeletal problems than normal weight peers. The musculoskeletal problems included back/neck pain and lower extremity […]
Autism, Proprioception and Visual Cues
The journal entitled Nature Neuroscience recently published research on how autistic children use proprioceptive information and visual information. The researchers concluded that autistic children relied much more on the proprioceptive information to learn new movement patterns rather than external visual cues when compared to typically developing peers. In addition, they found that the children who […]
New Handwriting Program
We are very excited to announce a new handwriting program that we are offering on our website. Handwriting on the Wall© and the W.I.N. TM (Write Incredibly Now TM)program has been developed by Susan N. Orloff OTR/L. Susan N. Orloff, OTR/L has been an occupational therapist since 1971. She has had extensive experience both in […]
Yoga in the Classroom
Found out about this free resource on Twitter from @lloydcrew – thanks! This is a post on OT Connections about the benefits of using yoga in the classroom. If you scroll down there is 4 pdf documents that you can open and print. Each document is a yoga routine to use in the classroom. This […]
Parents’ Endorsement of Vigorous Team Sports Increases Children’s Physical Activity, Say Researchers
PARENTS’ ENDORSEMENT OF VIGOROUS TEAM SPORTS INCREASES CHILDREN’S PHYSICAL ACTIVITY, SAY RESEARCHERS But Parents Push Girls Less Toward Sports and Vigorous Chores, According to New Study ——————————————————————————– WASHINGTON—Parents who value strenuous team sports are more likely to influence their children to join a team or at least participate in some kind of exercise, and spend […]
Digital Magazine from Your Therapy Source Inc July 2009
Open publication – Free publishing – More autism
Why?
Just a quick, brief commentary on some recent observations… Why do we have child sized spoons, forks, knives, cups and scissors but most children use full sized pencils when learning how to write? Why do children have to learn to write their names at age 3? Please tell me how this is a functional skill […]
Guess the Object Video Activity Idea
Guess The Object: Purpose: Encourage fine motor skills and stereognosis (using only your sense of touch to determine what an object is).Materials: cardboard box, scissors, stapler, fabric scraps, small objectsHow to Play: Show child a tray of small objects. Place one small object inside the box. The child reaches in and guesses what the object […]
Brain Powered Mobility
Check out this video. Toyota has created a way to drive a motorized wheelchair using only brain waves. The wheelchair user wears a cap that sends brain scan signals to a computer which then steers the chair. Would love to see this tested on children. This would change lives! More info…
Moderately Preterm Babies, EI Services and School Age Function
Pediatrics reports in the current issue that children who were born at 32-36 weeks gestational age are at greater risk for special education services than full term children at 8 years of age. Of the 377 children studied who were moderately preterm (with no NICU care or congenital malformations), the special education rate was 7.2% […]