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Therapies > Play
What Is Play Therapy? A Parent's Guide for Special Needs Families
...It's not recreational play with therapeutic benefits. It's not OT-based play...recreational play with therapeutic benefits. It's not OT-based play activities...activities repackaged. It's a distinct therapeutic modality where licensed therapists...forms of therapy, which conditions benefit most, what a typical session looks...
Lifestyle > Recreation
Gaming for Special Needs: The Complete Guide to Adaptive Controllers and Accessible Play
...know how to choose between them, and don't realize gaming can deliver therapeutic benefits that go beyond entertainment. This guide covers which adaptive...choose between them, and don't realize gaming can deliver therapeutic benefits that go beyond entertainment. This guide covers which adaptive controllers...
Lifestyle > Art
How Art Therapy Helps Children and Adults with Special Needs: Benefits, Methods, and Getting Started
...expensive recreational programming, or something parents can do at home with construction paper and markers. Art therapy isn't arts and crafts with therapeutic feelings attached. It's a regulated clinical discipline backed by neuroscience research, with specific applications for autism, cerebral palsy, Down...
Medical > Psychiatry
The Changing Face of Special Needs Care: Occupational Therapy
Understanding the Role and Benefits of Occupational Therapy for Individuals...its holistic approach and its vast benefits for people with developmental, physical...need to do. This happens through the therapeutic use of everyday activities, known...occupational therapy's expansive benefits. It looks beyond medical management...
Therapies > Play
Fun and Therapeutic Water Play in Your Own Backyard or Neighborhood Pool
...designed with play in mind can be both fun and therapeutic! Aquatic therapy has been around since ancient...therapy has been around since ancient times. The therapeutic benefits of the water are tremendous. While submerged...been around since ancient times. The therapeutic benefits of the water are tremendous. While submerged...
Therapies > Play
Product of the Week: Social Skills, Emotional Growth and Drama Therapy
...emotional development. Chasen describes drama therapy and exactly how it benefits children with autism by using his own experiences and facts from research...will love Chasen's story of turning a 2000-square-foot basement into a therapeutic center for individuals with autism. Through...
Lifestyle > Recreation
Swimming: A Life-saving Skill
Swimming is vital for safety, even more so for kids with intellectual challenges, offering therapeutic benefits and reducing drowning risks.
Health > Exercise
Swimming and Aquatic Therapy: Why Water Works for Children with Special Needs
...medium that reduces the physical demands of movement while increasing the therapeutic benefit. Physical therapists, occupational therapists, and pediatricians...reduces the physical demands of movement while increasing the therapeutic benefit. Physical therapists, occupational therapists, and pediatricians recommend...
Lifestyle > Independence
Ying / Yang – Balance Your Child With The Outside World
...participating and succeeding in activities. Many benefit from the therapeutic value that engaging in recreation...succeeding in activities. Many benefit from the therapeutic value that engaging in recreation provides. Sports,...attending or social skills? Is the activity going to benefit my child in a meaningful and functional way?...
Therapies > Music
Music Therapy for Children with ADHD
...interventions to accomplish individualized goals within a therapeutic relationship by a credentialed professional who...people realize that music has been used as a therapeutic tool since antiquity, and music therapy addresses...individuals. Children with ADHD can especially benefit from the calming and social aspects of music...
Therapies > Animal
Small Animal Therapy: How Guinea Pigs, Rabbits, and Cats Help Children with Special Needs
...watching videos of therapy horses. But when you suggested visiting a therapeutic riding center, she backed into the corner and wouldn't come out for an...sensory processing or anxiety, that predictability matters more than therapeutic ambition. Small animals move slowly. There's time to watch, to decide...
Therapies > Music
Music Therapy for Special Needs Children: What Parents Should Know
...What Music Therapy Is (And What It Isn't). Music therapy is the clinical use of music interventions to accomplish individualized goals within a therapeutic relationship. That's the formal definition from the American Music Therapy Association (AMTA). In practice, it means a trained clinician uses musical...