Where We Come to You TheraPeeps provides in-home pediatric occupational therapy across Santa Clara and Santa Cruz Counties, including Mountain View, Los Altos, Los Altos Hills, Palo Alto, Menlo Park, Portola Valley, Sunnyvale, Cupertino, Santa Clara, Saratoga, Campbell, Los Gatos, San Jose, Santa Cruz, Capitola, and Bonny Doon. Not sure if that includes you? Check...
There was a point, when my kids were little, when their mere touch made me cringe. Don’t get me wrong, I loved to snuggle them, kiss them and hug on them….on my own conditions. When I decided.
As a parent with a child who has developmental differences you may feel overwhelmed. There are so many types of therapies out there and you only want the best for your child. You Google all sorts of key words and a litany of therapy choices is displayed. Where do you begin?
When my daughter was little, she was a wiggle bug! I remember trying to get her through her spelling words or math facts and she would be jumping up and down, laying on the floor, standing up or sitting on the floor.
There are many reasons your child's hand may hurt when writing. Typically, it is from decreased strength. The hard part is that the strength isn’t just from the hand. It is from the core, shoulder, forearm, wrist, and then hand. All of those areas need to get strengthened.
Learning how to write or how to improve your writing does not mean you need to sit and practice writing letters for hours at a time!
Dysgraphia is considered a specific learning disability and interestingly it is not really about handwriting. It’s a deficit the process of writing. It is not merely a poor end product or end result.
