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Gifts that Support Growth and Development

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If you are buying gifts for a special child in your life, you have an opportunity to provide a gift that will be both fun and enriching. As children play, they develop motor skills, visual processing and social skills. The right toy can help to provide your child with entertainment and help them ...

Winter Social Skills Groups

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It is that time of year when temperatures fall and hopes rise. This also means that it is time to start registering for Winter Social Skills Groups! Give your child the gift of friendship by helping them learn social skills. Winter Social Skills Groups are scheduled to start Wednesday, January 22...

Parenting a Child with ADHD: Tips for Social Skills

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Developing and maintaining friends can be challenging for children with ADHD. Their increased level of activity, impulsivity, and talkativeness can make interactions difficult. The ability to read social cues and knowing how to interact and get along with others does not always come naturally to ...

Parenting a Child with ADHD: Tips for Fidgeting

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Difficulty sitting still is a common symptom of ADHD. Fidgeting, continuous movement, and wiggling often leads to children distracting other, which in turn often results in them being reprimanded. Although researchers have developed different explanations for why children with ADHD experience a s...

Parenting a Child with ADHD: Helpful Tips for Anger

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Difficulty with low frustration tolerance and anger are common facets of ADHD. As a parent it is easy to get entangled in power struggles with your child, especially when you perceive his/her behavior is an attempt to manipulate a situation to get his/her way. Although tantrums and anger outburst...

National School Backpack Awareness Day

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The American Occupational Therapy Association (AOTA) is sponsoring National School Backpack Awareness Day, an annual national educational even,t to call attention to health problems in children and adults caused by backpacks that are too heavy or worn improperly.  The U.S. Consumer Product and S...