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Overheard in Occupational Therapy: Learning to Lose Is a Skill
Sometimes our therapists intentionally beat kids at the games they’re playing. Why? Because learning to lose is an important life skill, too. When an occupational therapist gives a child opportunities to practice losing, they may be helping them work on: Emotional...
How Can Occupational Therapy Help a Child With ADHD?
Parents often think of occupational therapy as helping children with fine motor skills, handwriting, or daily activities, but pediatric OT can also support many of the skills children with ADHD use throughout the day. RSI Occupational Therapist Brian Kingsford, BS,...
Signs of Speech & Language Difficulties
Some signs of speech and language difficulties are easy to spot. Others are easy to miss. Speech therapy can support so much more than pronunciation, including communication, fluency, social skills, feeding, literacy, and confidence. If you’ve ever wondered whether...
Overheard in Pediatric Speech Therapy: “He understands it…he just doesn’t answer.”
For many children, it’s common to understand a question but still struggle to respond. That delay sometimes gets mistaken for disinterest or defiance, but it’s often just the child having difficulty processing the information they were given. Some kids need more time...
March is National Athletic Training Month & Brain Injury Awareness Month
March is National Athletic Training Month & Brain Injury Awareness Month--shout out to RSI's two Athletic Trainers, Jared Olsen and Christine Duffy. They are doing amazing things protecting and helping the athletes at Madison School District #321 and Sugar-Salem...
Overheard in Pediatric Speech Therapy: Sometimes the best way to practice speech is with movement.
Overheard in Pediatric Speech Therapy: Sometimes the best way to practice speech is with movement. Speech therapy does not always happen sitting at a table. Sometimes kids are climbing, jumping, pushing, or swinging. There are good reasons for that. Why you might see...