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Recreational Therapy vs Leisure Activities: Understanding the Difference
Lifestyle > Recreation

Recreational Therapy vs Leisure Activities: Understanding the Difference

By Franklin Morris
...could unlock insurance coverage or school support. What Recreational Therapy...measurable objectives, delivers interventions, and tracks progress toward discharge...centers, psychiatric facilities, schools, and community-based programs that...Medicaid or private insurance. RT interventions might include adaptive sports, art...
Sensory Art Activities for Children with Autism and SPD
Lifestyle > Art

Sensory Art Activities for Children with Autism and SPD

By Gregory Simmons
Your child has sensory processing differences, and the art table at school is a minefield. Fingerpaint sticks to hands in a way that feels wrong....including improved communication and emotional regulation. But therapy-level interventions aren't required for every art session. What matters more is understanding...
Animal-Assisted Therapy for Special Needs Children: A Parent's Guide to All Your Options
Therapies > Animal

Animal-Assisted Therapy for Special Needs Children: A Parent's Guide to All Your Options

By Daniel Thompson
...need to understand what kind of intervention you're signing up for, what credentials...everything from certified clinical interventions to informal pet visitation programs....Animal-Assisted Therapy (AAT) is a clinical intervention delivered by a credentialed therapist,...structured. A trained animal visits a school, hospital, or care facility to provide...
Beyond Survival Mode: A Recovery Plan for Caregiver Burnout
Lifestyle > Self-Care

Beyond Survival Mode: A Recovery Plan for Caregiver Burnout

By Dr. Harper Clark
...the motions of caregiving with competence but no emotional connection. You don't feel angry or sad, you feel nothing. You avoid phone calls from the school because you don't have the capacity to process one more problem. You resent your child for needing you,...
The Neuropsychological Evaluation: A Complete Guide for Parents
Health > Diagnosis

The Neuropsychological Evaluation: A Complete Guide for Parents

By Daniel Evans
...after years of struggling in school. Maybe the teacher suggested...suggested it when standard interventions weren't working. Either way,...diagnosis, treatment planning, and school accommodations. For many...academic struggles despite intervention, behavioral challenges that...showing that less intensive interventions have been tried. Some plans...
How to Find and Vet a Qualified Special Needs Tutor
Education > Tutoring

How to Find and Vet a Qualified Special Needs Tutor

By Julia Rivera
...strategies that already failed in school. The mistake wasn't hiring a tutor....behavior management, and evidence-based interventions for disabilities. If a tutor has...reading specialist certification, or school psychology bring deeper training...assessment, instructional design, and intervention...
Therapeutic Approaches to Autism: Exploring Pediatric Possibilities
Medical > Pediatrics

Therapeutic Approaches to Autism: Exploring Pediatric Possibilities

By Dr. Opal Stenson
...outcomes. Emphasis on Early Intervention. One of the critical shifts...been the emphasis on early intervention. A myriad of studies recommends...therapists can introduce interventions that help to encourage speech,...child's therapy within their school curriculum, the daily environment...on traditional behavioral interventions such as cognitive-behavioral...
Safety-Care: Making Least Restrictive Interventions Available.
Education > Accommodations

Safety-Care: Making Least Restrictive Interventions Available.

By Bonnie Terry
...implementing the least intrusive interventions within the least restrictive environments...applicable understanding of the interventions used. This can be especially difficult...dangerous behavior. Least Intrusive Interventions. Quality Behavioral Solutions, Inc....asking your child to get ready for school in the morning, one that typically...
Occupational Therapy Month
Therapies > Occupational

Occupational Therapy Month

By SpecialNeeds.com Editor
..."holistic and customized approach to evaluations, interventions, and outcomes help a child with disabilities participate...help a child with disabilities participate in school and in social situations, assist a person recovering...your teeth, eating morning cereal, walking to school, sitting quietly and still at a desk, playing...
Ask the Developmental Doc: Psychotropic Medication
Health > Treatment

Ask the Developmental Doc: Psychotropic Medication

By SpecialNeeds.com Editor
...Zoloft who is having really severe behaviors in school and at home when ANY type of demand is put on...individual control worrisome behaviors. Behavior interventions that work in concert with medicinal therapy are...prescribe to a developmental/relational therapeutic intervention...
New Treatment Guidelines for ADHD
Special Needs > Attention Deficit Disorders

New Treatment Guidelines for ADHD

By SpecialNeeds.com Editor
...appropriate treatment, we can increase their chances of succeeding in school." In addition, the guidelines also recommend a trial of behavioral interventions...school." In addition, the guidelines also recommend a trial of behavioral interventions first, followed by treatment with medication if the behavioral therapy...
Brain Scans Detect Early Signs of Dyslexia
Special Needs > Dyslexia

Brain Scans Detect Early Signs of Dyslexia

By SpecialNeeds.com Editor
...around second or third grade in school. A team from Children's Hospital...kindergarten but they can't get interventions at their schools,” says Nadine Gaab...can't get interventions at their schools,” says Nadine Gaab of the Laboratories...Neuroscience at Children's. Early intervention would be ideal in cases of dyslexia....

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