Early Feeding Skills to implement early on. Tip 1: Scraping. When feeding your child with a spoon, try not to scrape the food from the spoon with your child’s lips. By keeping the spoon stationary and at the level right above their bottom lip...
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Hello, my name is Zak Reineke, and I am one of the BCBAs at TEAM 4 Kids working at the Peoria clinic and in the home setting. I have been working with children with Autism and related disorders for the past 10 years, and have worked in a variety...
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Interview with Bob Tell us about yourself: I’m a goofy, my glass is re-fillable(not half empty or half full), love to play pranks kinda guy. Why did you become involved in Pediatric Therapy? Seeing Lisa Herrmann’s passion for helping kids...
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Interview with Haley Why did you become an Occupational Therapist? I really struggled to decide what I wanted to do with my career. In college, I bounced between nursing school, elementary education, and English literature before I finally...
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Requesting is a great skill to encourage kids to talk more. Requesting is when a child asks for something. Most often it works when the child initiates the request, unlike when you want them to want something. Motivation/food: I am not above...
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GoBabyClub is a great app for any new parents looking for ideas on how to work on developmental activities with their babies. The app includes 250 activity video clips and pictures that will guide the parent along the natural developmental...
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Building blocks can be used to develop many skills we work on in occupational therapy. We would like to talk to you about imitation of block design and all the different areas this will help your child. First, do you have wooden blocks or...
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Many parents have gone through battles at the dinner table trying to get their child to try new foods at home. Why won’t they just try one bite? Children who have feeding difficulties or aversions to foods will often have trouble trying...
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