TOPIC: Tools for TOTS ... Activities for Little Sprouts! Welcome to the Seventeenth 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 the toddler years, key milestones of toddler development, planning and implementing therapy for toddlers, and providing parents/caregivers with educational resources and tools.  We hope these seeds of information will help with the most important job there is . . . helping child ..read more

The 2024 Summer Olympic Games are here! The Olympic mission strives to encourage and promote friendship, ethical principles, and fair play through sport. Given their encouragement and promotion of equality and non-discrimination, the Summer Olympics is a wonderful opportunity to expose and teach children about how the world unites for a positive, collective experience. Furthermore, the Paralympics will start on August 28, 2024. These games have the following core values that every student would benefit from learning about. Courage: These athletes seek to accomplish what the general public may ..read more

Another school year is approaching and we have the ULTIMATE solution for all Occupational Therapists, Physical Therapists, and Speech-Language Pathologists to conquer the 2024/2025 School Year …. the Ultimate Digital Therapy Planner!   To find the 2024/2025 Therapy Planner: From the Home Page: Click --> Caseload Management  Sort by category -->The Ultimate Therapy Planner    Personalize and Customize Your 2024/2025 Therapy Planner with the Following Digital Interactive Tools:   FREE Therapy Planner Cover Pages & Binder Spines: This FR ..read more

Welcome to the sixth 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 first 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: Figure Ground, Form Constancy, Spatial Relations/Position in Space and Visual Closure. We have done ..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

Tools to Grow is excited to share our NEW MULTIDISCIPLINE FREE Activity-a-Day Summer 2024 Calendars with hundreds of activities designed to maintain academic knowledge, battle summer boredom, and make family memories! NEW!! For 2024 we have created FREE Multidiscipline Calendars + Detailed Plans for the months of June, July, and August 2024. 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 ac ..read more

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