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Improving Your Child’s Social Skills: Making Eye Contact

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In this age of tablets, Xbox Ones, PS4s, and Wii U, it can be nice to get some real face time (and not Facetime on your iPhone!).  As adults, we often stress the importance of eye contact with our children, but we might not explain why looking at someone is important in a social interaction.  [...

Winter 2014 Social Skills Group Schedule

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It’s time to start thinking about 2014….The New Year will be here before we know it. Registrations have started for winter social skills groups. 7-10 year olds: 8 week session starting Jan 29 and ending March 12 from 4:30 to 5:30 on Wednesdays 5-7 year olds: 6 week session starting February 3 and...

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 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...

Tips for Back to School

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The beginning of a new school year can be an exciting yet stressful time for children, with new teachers and classmates, bigger classrooms, new routines and more schoolwork. This time can be particularly stressful and overwhelming for children who are facing major transitions such as starting ele...

Sensory Play Group Summer Camp

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What we did for occupational therapy time and why… “But it’s summer. I don’t want to work on handwriting…” If you have heard this before, it’s okay because there are lots of things that we did this past week in our Sensory Play Group Summer Camp to build the skills that are needed for h...

Social Skills | Teens with Autism

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Here is a wonderful article on social skills and why they are important. The article is focused more on children/teens with Autism, however there is good information for any child that is having difficulty in social situations. There are also a few tips on activities to do at home that reinfor...