TOPIC: Job Skills for Teens Easy to Implement Strategies to Use During Therapy & In The Classroom Welcome to the Sixteenth Edition of Tips For Growing! These blog posts will focus on important clinical topics that are regularly encountered when working with children.  Today’s "Tips For Growing" will focus on Job Skills for Teens and how Occupational Therapy and Speech Therapy can help!.  We hope these seeds of information will help with the most important job there is . . . helping children grow. Job Skills for Teens: How Occupational Therapy & Speech Therapy C ..read more

TOPIC: Mindfulness Easy to Implement Strategies to Use During Therapy & In The Classroom Welcome to the Fifteenth Edition of Tips For Growing! These blog posts will focus on important clinical topics that are regularly encountered when working with children.  Today’s "Tips For Growing" will focus on Mindfulness.  We hope these seeds of information will help with the most important job there is . . . helping children grow. Mindfulness: Easy To Implement Strategies To Use During Therapy & In The Classroom   Professionals that work with children are incr ..read more

TOPIC: Integrating Primitive Reflexes Interventions for Challenging & Integrating Primitive Reflexes Welcome to the Thirteenth Edition of Tips For Growing! These blog posts will focus on important clinical topics that are regularly encountered when working with children.  Today’s "Tips For Growing" will focus on therapeutic interventions that are known to help inhibit the activation of tonic reflexes and advance postural control as a foundation for optimal functioning.  We hope these seeds of information will help with the most important job there is . . .&nbs ..read more

TOPIC: Tools for Teens! School Based Therapy Intervention Session Plans For Teenagers Welcome to the Twelfth Edition of Tips For Growing! These blog posts will focus on important clinical topics that are regularly encountered when working with children.  Today’s "Tips For Growing" will focus on strategies and tools for school based therapy intervention for use with teenagers. We hope these seeds of information will help with the most important job there is . . . helping children grow.     If you have a student on your caseload that is in their teen years, the ..read more

We have the ULTIMATE solution for all Occupational Therapists, Physical Therapists, and Speech-Language Pathologists to conquer the 2023/2024 School Year …. the Ultimate Digital Therapy Planner!  To find the 2023/2024 Therapy Planner: From the Home Page: Click --> Caseload Management  Sort by category -->The Ultimate Therapy Planner    Personalize and Customize Your 2023/2024 Therapy Planner with the Following Digital Interactive Tools:   Therapy Planner Cover Pages & Binder Spines: This FREE digital resource is the perfect solution t ..read more

Tools to Grow is pleased to share our annual FREE Activity-a-Day Summer 2023 Calendars with hundreds of activities designed to maintain academic knowledge, battle summer boredom, and make family memories! By providing their child the opportunity to engage in these activities, parents will be offering their children the chance to: Minimize or eliminate learning loss- Skill regression may occur during prolonged breaks from school. These activities offer opportunities for writing, drawing, generating ideas, and using executive functioning skills (problem solving, planning & organizing ..read more

Welcome to the eleventh edition of Tips For Growing! These blog posts will focus on important clinical topics that are regularly encountered when working with children. We hope these seeds of information will help with the most important job there is . . . helping children grow. May is Better Hearing and Speech Month! Today’s "Tips For Growing" will focus on Speech-Language Pathology! May is Better Hearing and Speech Month!   Tools to Grow is extremely honored to have a guest blogger for our "Tips for Growing"! LeeAnn Terhune, CCC-SLP has been a speech-language pathologist for 22 years. L ..read more

Welcome to the tenth edition of Tips For Growing! These blog posts will focus on important clinical topics that are regularly encountered when working with children. We hope these seeds of information will help with the most important job there is . . . helping children grow. Today’s "Tips For Growing" will focus on collaboration between teachers and Occupational Therapy Practitioners, practice implications, and strategies to promote this partnership.  As occupational therapy practitioners we understand the importance of collaboration in planning goals and implementing strategies. Collabo ..read more

Welcome to the seventh edition of Tips For Growing! These blog posts will focus on important clinical topics that are regularly encountered when working with children. We hope these seeds of information will help with the most important job there is . . . helping children grow. Today’s "Tips For Growing" is the second of two parts that will focus on types of visual perception, symptoms of deficiencies, and resources to help address difficulties in these areas.  >> Visual Perceptual Areas will include: Visual Discrimination, Visual Memory, Visual Scanning & Visual Tracking ..read more

We have a fun way to celebrate the Thanksgiving holiday and work on fine motor skills, bilateral coordination skills, hand strengthening, eye-hand coordination, and praxis!  Materials Needed: Template - Find here!  2 Pipe cleaners Beads Tape Directions:  1. Print template on cardstock. Find template here!  2. Cut out card. 3. Punch a hole in each circle (4). Tip = Fold paper slightly at each circle to punch using a hole punch. 4. Laminate for durability. 5. Cut two pipe cleaners in half, creating 4 equal pipe cleaners. 6. Take a pipe cleaner and press one end into ..read more