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Assistive Tech > Mobility
Standing Frames for Children with Cerebral Palsy: Medical Benefits Beyond Walking
...ambulatory can feel like false hope wrapped in medical jargon. But the benefits have nothing to do with walking, and everything to do with what happens...through their legs without falling. The goal isn't gait training. It's therapeutic positioning that creates mechanical load on bones, opens the hip joint...
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.
Lifestyle > Recreation
Horseback Riding Therapy for Children with Cerebral Palsy
...training. Many families hear about therapeutic riding and assume it's a leisure...assume it's a leisure activity with therapeutic benefits tacked on. That assumption...leisure activity with therapeutic benefits tacked on. That assumption costs...directed by a licensed PT or OT) and therapeutic riding (a structured recreational...
Lifestyle > Recreation
Tabletop Role-Playing Games for Social Skills Development
...to what others are doing, and work together toward a shared goal. The therapeutic benefits are built into how the game works, not added on afterward. Why...others are doing, and work together toward a shared goal. The therapeutic benefits are built into how the game works, not added on afterward. Why RPG Structure...
Therapies > Physical
Aquatic Therapy for Special Needs Children: Benefits and What to Expect
...you're not clear on what makes it different from regular PT or why water would help. Aquatic therapy uses the unique properties of water to create therapeutic opportunities that don't exist on land. Buoyancy reduces the force of gravity, allowing children to move in ways they can't manage in a clinic. Resistance...
Legal > Government Benefits
DOJ Just Charged the Largest Autism Fraud Scheme in Its History. Here's What Every Family Using Medicaid-Funded ABA Should Know Now.
..."behavioral technicians." They billed for full eight-hour days of one-on-one therapy when sessions were either shorter, never happened, or involved no therapeutic activity. They altered psychological reports and plans of care to justify billing. They paid families directly to sign their children up for services...