Category Occupational Therapy
SPELL: A Framework That Puts Autistics, First
Understanding Gross & Fine Motor Skills
Occupational Therapy and the Senses
6 Red Flags When Choosing Schools & Therapists
Finding a therapist, teacher or school for a child with special needs that is a perfect fit, is like striking gold. Suffice to say, parents who have the tough choice to make between affording the best and finding the best affordable option, will resonate with this feeling. Nevertheless, it is quite important to recognise certain red flags when selecting a school or therapist for a child with special needs.
What Exactly is Interoception?
Interoception is a sense that allows us to feel sensations from the inside of our bodies. For example, interoception enables you to feel your stomach: is it growling or is it fluttery? Is it full or maybe nauseous?
Sorting Objects: Having Fun with Therapeutic Intervention
This is a combination of 2 pieces first published on Achievable Journey’s blog. These pieces provide useful tips for therapeutic interventions and fun activities involving sorting.
Introducing Visual Support
We learn differently and the identified learning styles are visual, auditory, reading/writing and kinesthetic as developed in 1992 by Neil D. Fleming and Coleen E. Mills. We do have a preferred learning style or a preferred combination of learning style. For younger children and children with special needs, pictures or images is a method of communication.
Therapy Through Play (TTP) program by WRTS is back!
The Therapy Through Play (TTP) program run by We Rock The Spectrum (WRTS) Express Bangsar in collaboration with the Energy Source is back, for the third successive year! TTP is a program aimed to provide families with autistic children an opportunity to build their skills and confidence so they can conduct therapeutic activities with and for their own child(ren).
Understanding Praxis
Praxis skills include everything from moving and sorting objects during infancy up to organizing their belongings when they’ve gone to school! Developmental co-ordination disorder (DCD), also known as dyspraxia, is a condition affecting physical co-ordination.