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Occupational therapy

Therapy that helps children build daily living skills, adapt tasks, and use strategies or tools for activities like dressing.

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Dysgraphia in children: signs and classroom challenges

Dysgraphia in children: signs and classroom challenges

What dysgraphia is Dysgraphia is a specific learning-related difficulty that interferes with written expression. In practice, it can show up as poor handwriting, inconsistent letter formation, slow transcription, spelling errors, or trouble turning ideas into coherent sentences and paragraphs. Some children mainly struggle with the motor act of writing; others have a broader written-language problem […]

Loose parts play: using everyday objects for creative play

Loose parts play: using everyday objects for creative play

What loose parts play means Loose parts play means giving children everyday objects that can be moved, combined, stacked, sorted, carried, torn apart, and rebuilt. The key feature is not what the object is, but what the child can do with it. A cardboard tube may become a telescope, a bridge, a megaphone, or part […]

Adaptive clothing for children with mobility or dressing challenges

Adaptive clothing for children with mobility or dressing challenges

What adaptive clothing means for children Adaptive clothing refers to garments designed or modified to make dressing, undressing, toileting, hygiene, and medical access easier. For children, this may include clothing for children who use wheelchairs, walkers, standers, ankle-foot orthoses, spinal braces, prostheses, casts, gastrostomy tubes, insulin pumps, ostomies, central lines, continence products, or ventilatory support. […]