Children learn and develop through play. A child’s job is to have fun and develop basic self care, motor and developmental skills. Therapeutic play for special kids Occupational therapy is a fun, ...

A bus is providing therapy on the go for kids with sensory issues. An occupational therapist started this bus in Salem to create greater access for families in rural areas and those with busy ...

PITTSFIELD — We all have our likes and dislikes. The food we eat. The clothes we wear. The places and situations we find either comfortable or somehow awkward, even scary or upsetting. For most of us, ...

I am an occupational therapist working with all humans on understanding & regulating their own unique sensory system. Most sensory based OT's work with children, but after 8 years of working with ...

Jill Pellettieri’s recent Washingtonian article “Should You Send Your Kids to Occupational Therapy?,” which ran in our February 2016 print issue with the headline “How to Hold a Pencil: And Other ...

The symptoms seem like normal toddler or preschool behaviors: picky eating, tantrums over what clothes to wear and clumsiness. But for some children extreme sensitivity to certain things can be ...

One child can’t put on socks if the socks have seams. Another can’t do art projects because the feeling of paint on his hands is too overwhelming. Another can’t ever seem to stop spinning. All these ...

The lives of many families with kids who struggle with food issues have been changed for the better by food therapy — the process in which a therapist counsels a child and leads them through ...

The Sensory Studio, a young children’s indoor recreation and sensory play center and the only indoor play space with a sandpit, re-opened this weekend at its newly combined location with FUNctional ...