Most people are familiar with the five senses of sight, touch, taste, sound, and smell, but what do you know about your vestibular, proprioceptive, and interoceptive systems?
Children, especially young children, often share their needs through their behaviors. In this article we share practical strategies to support a child's social-emotional development by getting to the root cause of their actions.
With maturation and parental guidance, young children can build reflective skills and executive function, learning to pause, think, calm their emotions and problem solve.
We don’t have to wait for the time we are able to hug loved ones again to remember what gratitude is, but when that time comes, we will not take it for granted.
In this installment of our community education series, we discuss what is called a sensory diet - what it means, how it may show up in our own children, and what we can do to support them.
Sensory processing is a foundation that supports humans in every area of development. From an infant’s ability to lift their head against gravity, to a school age child’s ability to focus on their school work, sensory processing plays an important role in the development of essential life skills.
Stephanie Combey, Senior Director of Children’s Mental Health Services at St. David's Center, discusses some of the ways parents and caregivers may see anxiety and depression present in children.
In this installment of our two-part series on early motor skill development, Cassandra Murray, an occupational therapist discusses the progression from sitting independently through crawling.
In part one of this two-part series, we discuss ways to help your young child build a foundation for motor skill success with antigravity and supine positions.
