I recently heard about this cool website called OTPlan (Occupational Therapy Plan) from a member of my local ASA chapter and just had to share it with all of you. What is OTPlan? In their own words, The concept is pretty simple: OTPlan is an activity idea and treatment plan search engine. The site matches…
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A Fishy Tale (tail).
Ivy ate some salmon yesterday. David and I had sushi and she wanted to try it, so we let her. About an hour later she came out in big red welts and started to cough. It was just one small piece and I’m pretty sure she has had fish before. Before long she was scratching…
Try This Tuesday #41: Choosing Therapies
Welcome to this week’s Try This Tuesday. For details on how to participate, please check out the welcome post. Since the beginning of the year, I have been suggesting topics each week, sort of a take-it-or-leave-it writing prompt, but this week I left it open-ended. For now, I am going to leave it that way,…
Hunger Bites
Just in the last two days, I have seen three news reports about people getting arrested for shoplifting food. I have to believe it is because the economic crisis has impacted so many families and left them desperate. But in an effort to help, my youngest daughter, Ashley, is trying to make a difference. Ashley…
Try This Tuesday #40: Supplemental Therapies
Welcome to this week’s Try This Tuesday. For details on how to participate, please check out the welcome post. If you’d like to join in but aren’t sure what to write about, try the topic suggestion for this week: Supplemental Therapies. I’m not sure if that’s the right word for it, but I’m thinking about…
Eat, pray, love
This is Max when he was eight months old, about the time he started doing baby food. As you can see, more of it typically ended up on his bib than in his mouth. From the first time he ate, he’d thrust food out of his mouth with his tongue. It was an issue that took…
That Dapper Tuber
One of the tools Ashley uses during her speech therapy sessions is a Mr. Potato Head toy. With all his different, colorful body parts, the opportunities for both receptive and expressive language are many. However, Ashley had her own agenda in last week’s therapy session with Mr. Potato Head. Instead of putting Mr. P. together…
Planning a Camping Trip With Reflux, a G-Tube and Cyclic Vomiting Syndrome…
Why, you ask? Because I woke up one morning and said to myself, “Self — Your life is disturbingly deficient in chaos at the moment… I know! Let’s plan a summer camping trip! You know — hours upon hours of gluten-free menu planning, tube-feeds without running water, barf bags, taking that ten-mile drive back into…
Obtaining Speech Therapy for Young Children
When friends with young children ask how to get speech therapy for their child, I usually have to shrug in ignorance. I can tell them exactly what to do for a school aged child, but pre-Kindergarten? I’m at a loss. Last fall, however, I found this page on Speechville.com How to Find Help to Pay…
Transforming PT into Play Time…
The “to do” list during the day when you parent a child with medical challenges can be overwhelming. And long. Such a list can include everything from specialty feedings, to medications, to dressing changes, to management of medical equipment. And then of course there are all of those physical therapy and occupational therapy exercises that…