I’m often asked what typical pencil grasp development looks like. We tackled this topic in a previous post, but I had a reader reach out to me asking for a one-page handout that she could share with parents and teachers. So I created this pencil grasp development handout that you can use as a quick…
Something I have heard from teachers over and over again is that there is not a lot of sensory processing information geared specifically toward the classroom environment. As educators or therapists, we often have to sift through lots of general information for the home and figure out how to make it fit our classrooms with…
In our new book, Sensory Processing Explained, we dedicated an entire section to educators and providing tools and activity suggestions for the classroom. Today I wanted to share some of my favorite DIY sensory tools and activities for the classroom. I’ve divided each of these activities into the eight sensory systems so you can easily find…
If you’ve been around early education then you have probably heard of pre-writing lines. How do you know which pre-writing lines your child should know? And what ages should these pre-writing lines be mastered and turn into letters? Today I am sharing a pre-writing skills checklist that will help you out. What is pre-writing line…
I want to welcome and thank my mother-in-law, Debbie, a Certified Occupational Therapy Assistant, for all of her research and for sharing lots of great ideas on the topic of activities and ideas for dealing with sensitivities with Sensory Processing Disorder. Before we get started, if you have concerns that your child may have sensory…
Executive Function skills seem to be the new “buzz word” in child development. What exactly are the executive functioning skills? How do you know if your child struggles with executive function? These are the questions we are going to answer today. What are the Executive Functioning Skills? Before we get too far into Executive Function,…