Tag: fine motor delays
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Finding Ways To Turn The Volume Down
Tony was struggling for a while with accidentally holding down the side volume buttons on his kindle for too long, which would mute his device. His brain takes longer to get his muscles to learn how to replicate motions he sees (it is not a matter of understanding, his brain knows what it wants the…
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Key Moments From Our Latest COVID Quarantine
Andy actually wasn’t the first person in our family to develop symptoms, nor was he the source of our exposure- though he was the only one to be PCR tested because of his job. Two days after I got my new piercings, our sweet Hannah had brief unmasked contact with her boyfriend…who developed symptoms the…
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Checking In With OT
Over a year has passed since our last occupational therapy (OT) update. Shortly after our last post about what we were working on with her, Amara went on maternity leave and another therapist was covering as our little man’s OT provider for a few short months. We are grateful Amara was able to resume working…
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Let’s Talk About Speech, Part 1
I have discovered that when people with typically verbal family members think about speech therapy, most assume that it exclusively involves the process of teaching appropriate verbal speech. This certainly can be the case, but when an individual isn’t capable of producing vocal sounds or putting them together in ways recognizable to others, the approach…