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Occupational therapy assistant students at Wallace State Community College in Hanceville, AL, made some discoveries when they set out to see what kind of understanding pediatricians in their rural area had of occupational therapy, and whether the physicians were referring...

Sensory integration is the ability to use the senses to take in information, put it together with prior knowledge and memories, and create meaningful responses. Children who have sensory processing disorders, formerly called sensory integration disorder, don’t put all the...

Gymnastics is a sport that encompasses many different skills that aid in developing each gymnast as a whole. A child with special needs grows up in a community that sometimes does not provide all of the necessary tools in one location. In turn, this leaves the child having to...

Erin Feeney capped off her 19th birthday celebration with a huge accomplishment that still makes her smile. For the first time in her life, she was ale to blow out her birthday candle. On Nov. 11 last year, when she turned 20, she did it again. “Not two or three, but one,...

Children with special needs are at greater risk for obesity and the problems that go with it. “The beautiful thing about yoga is you can choose how much information you get,” says Claudia Crowe, an Occupational Therapist in Chicago… To continue with this article,...

“According to the groundbreaking new study from UC San Francisco, published in the online Journal,NeuroImage: Clinical, researchers found that children affected with Sensory Processing Disorder (SPD) have quantifiable differences in brain structure, confirming a biological basis...

“Motor skills are significantly related to adaptive behavior skills in young children with autism spectrum disorders (ASDs), according to a recent study, suggesting that focusing on motor skills development should be part and parcel of early intervention programs…” To...

The cost of finding infants and toddlers with developmental delays and getting them “ready” for school has been an issue in the United States ever since Part C of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) became law in 1986, but in today’s...

Occupational therapy assistant students at Wallace State Community College in Hanceville, AL, made some discoveries when they set out to see what kind of understanding pediatricians in their rural area had of occupational therapy, and whether the physicians were referring...