I recently asked friends to guess what 3 ingredients were in the brownies shown above. The response was overwhelming and…
What is Functional Vision? In my book From Flapping to Function: A Parent’s Guide to Autism and Hand Skills, I describe…
Many years ago, I worked at a day program training adults with developmental disabilities and noticed that some of them…
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Dyspraxia is one of the 6 subtypes of Sensory Processing Disorders (SPD) Many children have more than one of the…
Types of Sensory Processing Disorders Understanding Sensory Processing Disorders (SPD) is complex because there are three primary diagnostic groups, and…
Some parents and even professionals may not realize how important crawling is to child development. Babies typically begin to crawl…
There are several advantages to attaching toys, creating games, and even writing on vertical or angled surfaces as opposed to…