What is Movement Based Learning? Movement based learning is a concept that involves active movement or physical activity to keep the student engaged and to improve retention of the information. Last week I introduced the topic of movement based learning and this week I want to discuss the advocacy and science behind it. As a […]
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Mid-Semester Check In It’s hard to believe that it’s already October! We’ve had a chance to get settled into the school year by now and we’ve made some great relationships with our students. Now that we understand the students we have this year, it’s a great time to check in with ourselves and reflect on
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For the last week of our The Sensory Path™ product series, I want to cover motor planning & sequencing! All of The Sensory Path’s™ products, even the individual elements, require motor planning & sequencing in order to use them. However, their full Sensory Path Packages, both indoor and outdoor, as well as their Learning Noodles
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This week our topic is core & lower extremity strength! There are loads of products from The Sensory Path™, individual elements & full Sensory Paths, that can serve as sensory physical therapy tools and are perfect for addressing core & lower extremity strength goals! One of my favorite ways to address core & lower extremity
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A very important gross motor skill that kids develop is the ability to walk along a line or balance beam. As they continue to develop & finesse this skill they eventually are able to perform this skill tandemly (heel-to-toe). If a child struggles with balance and is incapable of doing this we often see deficits
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This week and over the next few I will be doing a series on The Sensory Path™ products and ways to incorporate them into treatment sessions or activities to address different goals. If you remember several weeks ago in PT Goal Setting for Students, we discussed PT goals and how a student’s goals enable us
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