Up & Movin' Pediatric Therapy

✏️Multisensory handwriting provides a creative strategy to learn pre-writing and a different outlet to learn handwriting. Here are four multisensory pre-writing activities to try!

Wikki Stix Tracing
Laser pointer
Sandpaper letters
Lego letter tracing

Welcoming some new peeps around here at Up & Movin!!!
Ms. Breanna (therapy aide),Ms. Dixie (front office), Ms. Ileana (front office) & Ms. Stephanie (PTA)!!!!!

Better Speech & Hearing Month 🗣

🗣Better Speech & Hearing Month 🗣

🗣Better Speech & Hearing Month

Better Speech & Hearing Month

Happy Anniversary to these lovely ladies! We are so lucky to have you as part of our team!!!!

🗣Better Speech & Hearing Month 🗣

Celebrating ⓑⓔⓣⓣⓔⓡ ⓢⓟⓔⓔⓒⓗ & ⓗⓔⓐⓡⓘⓝⓖ month!!!!

👂🏼🗣May is Better Speech & Hearing Month 👂🏼🗣

Here are some OT recommended spoons for self-feeding. Each child has individual needs and may benefit from one spoon more than the other. Talk to your child's OT for specific recommendations.

Deep Scoop Nuby Spoon: Provides a deep bowl on the spoon to prevent spillage when scooping messy food such as cereal with milk.

Zoli Chubby Gummy Spoon: Used in preparation for spoon-feeding with an added gag guard attached.

Munchkin Toddler Spoon: Munchkin toddler spoon provides a metal bowl and child-size wide handle to assist with grasp.

Gootensils Dip Spoon: Best used when learning to use the spoon. Works best with yogurt-like textures or anything that sticks to the spoon. The shape allows the child to dip the spoon into food and bring to mouth while limiting the amount of food falling off the spoon.

Duo Textured Spoon: These spoons provide added texture to the spoon to promote lip closure and texture variation to food.

Swivel Spoon: This one is helpful for children who struggle to keep the spoon upright when feeding, it rotates so that the bowl of the spoon is always facing upwards.

💥May is Better Speech & Hearing Month 💥

SPRINGTIME SPEECH & LANGUAGE
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Springtime fun! Here are some communication targets to implement during the season!

Happy Mother’s Day to ALL our wonderful mothers!!!

B L O C K S 🧱
So many different language targets that can be incorporated when playing with blocks! Wooden blocks, legos, ABC blocks and more!

⭐️May the 4th be with you ⭐️

May the 4th be with you

🌸🌼Mother’s Day Raffle 🌸🌼
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S P E E C H & L A N G U A G E
T I P  📝 T H U R S D A Y
It's important to provide specific feedback when your child does something positive! Rather than saying "good job," highlight what was done: "You cleaned up all your toys by yourself! That was awesome!" 

🎶 ｈａｐｐｙ ｂｉｒｔｈｄａｙ ｔｏ ｙｏｕ... ｈａｐｐｙ ｂｉｒｔｈｄａｙ ｍａｎｄｉ, ｒｅｉ & ａｍａｎｄａ... ｈａｐｐｙ ｂｉｒｔｈｄａｙ ｔｏ ｙｏｕ!!!! 🎶

Speech & Language Tip THURSDAY 💡
Repetition is KEY!

ｗｅｌｃｏｍｅ ｍｓ. ａｍａｎｄａ & ｍｒ. ｖｉｎｃｅｎｔ !!!!!

We ♥️ our OTs!!!!



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Tips to make Pre-Writing Strokes/Shapes fun Part 2: Cross shape, square shapes, and right/left diagonal lines
Model the shape/strokes.
Build the shape/strokes with popsicle sticks, stickers, or pom poms.
Trace the shape/strokes with toy cars, your child’s finger, or cotton ball eraser.
Have your child try!

Join us on Monday 4/4/22!!! Wear red to therapy ♥️♥️

April is OT Month! Pediatric OT focuses on helping children gain independence in everyday tasks. We focus on building skills needed for daily activities such as fine motor and bilateral coordination, oral motor, visual motor, and sensory processing. Some specific areas that we address are self-feeding, expanding diet, transitioning from purees to solids, grooming and hygiene, dressing skills, and handwriting.

Talk to your child's pediatrician if you are concerned about your child's independence or tolerance in any of these areas.

* Please note that handwriting is only covered by some insurances.

T O Y
T I P
T U E S D A Y 🥔👀🦾👣👄🧢

One of our favorite toys to implement when teaching body parts, prepositions, skills to request, comment, label, etc.