Summer fun ideas for challenging Tweenies and Teens
Here are some great hand-eye coordination activities for clients across the lifespan – some are especially good for teens! Try these with tweenies and teens with difficulties with sensory-motor coordination, to get them off devices and outdoors over the summer.
Dyspraxia or DCD, what term and recommendatons do you use in your EHCP’s and why?
Sometimes the terms we use as therapists are disputed in EHCP meetings or tribunals. The following quotes have proved useful in defending my own use of the terms in reports, especially when I link the word I use to the specific assessment tool I have used to do my assessment and clinical formulation. Gibbs and […]
Trauma and development of the brain.
Watch this amazing TED about trauma…here’s a taster of what Nadine Burke Harris will share with you in her presentation, which explores the underlying neuroscience. “Well, imagine you’re walking in the forest and you see a bear. Immediately, your hypothalamus sends a signal to your pituitary, which sends a signal to your adrenal gland that says, “Release stress […]
Early trauma is stored in the body via the senses, this is why therapy through the senses is effective
“Early trauma is stored in the body via the senses, this is why therapy through the senses is effective.” Smith, K BPD and SI 2004 Occupational Therapists are ideally placed to work through play and via the senses to promote the development of healthy neurological pathways and structures; impacting the development of sensory motor […]
About the senses and development.
Our senses are critical to early development. Ayres (1972) defined sensory integration as “the neurological process that organises sensation from one’s own body and the environment and makes it possible to use the body effectively within the environment” When they do not work well, or our environment does not allow this to happen, we can’t get […]