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Weighted Blankets: What Do We Know?
May 28, 2013 6:12 PM by Cecilia Cruse

As a peds therapist and on staff expert for an equipment company for special needs, I do get asked periodically for more resources on weighted blankets. There have been some well-known published studies on weighted vests including Fertel-Daly et all on Read More...

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Sensory Strategies for At Risk Youth
January 24, 2013 12:50 PM by Cecilia Cruse

I recently had a conversation with a special education coordinator who oversees a large district. Part of her job duties include working with at risk students that have been removed from their home school and placed in a disciplinary education center. Read More...

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Preventing “Bucket Babies”
November 30, 2012 5:24 PM by Cecilia Cruse

This past week I presented a workshop to a child care provider network. This insightful group of mentors and educators were passionate about finding ways to adapt the current programs in many of their centers to include more sensory motor concepts. As Read More...

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An Interesting Study on Toe Walking
October 27, 2012 10:30 AM by Cecilia Cruse

As OTs (and certainly our pediatric PT colleagues) we have all seen our share of kids that are toe walking with no history of any apparent medical disorder that would account for the problem such as CP or sequelae from a TBI. Termed Idiopathic Toe Walking Read More...

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Snow - not just an outdoor sensory experience...
December 30, 2009 11:57 PM by Wendy Hof

I was working with a kiddo at a daycare a couple weeks ago after we had a substancial snowfall. The kids were all excited about the snow but it was too cold to go outside and play. The daycare provider grabbed two medium sized, see through tupperware Read More...

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Tuesday Tidbit - The Spit Cup
October 19, 2009 11:42 PM by Wendy Hof

When it comes to picky eaters one of the biggest challenges we have as therapists is getting the child to even taste something. There is, of course, an entire protocol to getting a sensory defensive child to allow food to be 1) in the room, 2) on the Read More...

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