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Corrections to Corrections

September 15, 2023 The Occuplaytional Therapist Comments Off

Sometimes I get stuck in awkward situations with other adults where the other adult feels like they need to correct a child in some way that feels wrong to me. It might be exacerbated by […]

Learn Something New

August 11, 2023 The Occuplaytional Therapist Comments Off

“You can learn something new every day …if you listen”? I saw this in a kindergarten classroom and I thought about what it was saying. That doesn’t sound true to me. I mean, you can […]

Rainbow Puzzle

August 1, 2023 The Occuplaytional Therapist Comments Off

Here’s a quick little puzzle that I made for some of my OT kids. I have a little “mailbox program” with a few of my kids — sort of a pen pal situation — they […]

Sitting

July 17, 2023 The Occuplaytional Therapist Comments Off

Sitting is not morally better than standing. Sitting is not morally better than pacing. Sitting is not morally better than wandering. Sitting is easier for some adults to handle than standing, pacing, or wandering. Why […]

Preparing For The Fall

June 6, 2023 The Occuplaytional Therapist Comments Off

…I was going to put “play with scissors” and “play riskily” on here, too, but I thought that might freak people out TOO much. 😉 Seriously, though. It’s the start of summer break at the […]

Occupationally Meaningful

January 29, 2023 The Occuplaytional Therapist Comments Off

When I get a kid on my caseload who has been forced, from too early, to trace and write — for whom it is HARD to trace and write, who quickly learns to HATE tracing […]