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Exercise Impacts on Academics
Do you want your kids to do better in math? How about improving their concentration? Behavior? Reading? Spelling? Overall academic achievement?
The answer is not a pill. It’s not a magic app. It’s not even a mysterious fruit from Indonesia! The key to helping your children is EXERCISE!
Self-Regulation in Children
What is Self-Regulation? (Text Excerpts from Your Therapy Source) Self-regulation is the ability to monitor and manage your emotions, thoughts, and behaviors in ways that produce positive results such as well-being, loving relationships, and learning. Self-Regulation...
Early Physical Therapy – Crawling
The first form of independent movement and how to know if your baby is on the right track. Text excerpt from The Early Learning Institute How do I know if my child is developing the proper skills to begin to crawl? While it may seem simple, crawling is a very complex...
School Therapists with Rehab Specialists of Idaho
For years, Rehab Specialists of Idaho has been providing physical and occupational therapy services to students in the classroom, through partnerships with Madison School District, Jefferson School District, and Fremont School District. Children who qualify to see our...
RSI Home Health
Did you know that Rehab Specialists of Idaho has therapists who visit client at their homes to do therapy? For years Rehab Specialists of Idaho has been providing home health services to clients who are homebound through partnerships with Homestead Home Health and...
The Benefits of Imaginative Play at Every Age
Cook up a delicious meal, perform a check up on your puppy, use some tools to fix a chair, and heal a sick patient. It’s all in a day’s work for your child when he or she participates in imaginative play at home! Not only is playing pretend a fun and engaging way for...
Auditory Processing Disorders
An Auditory Processing Disorder (APD) is present when a person has difficulty understanding sounds, including spoken words. An APD is very commonly misdiagnosed among young children and until recently couldn’t be diagnosed until a child was older, around 9 or 10...
Three Grants for Pediatric Therapy
At Rehab Specialists of Idaho we understand that therapy can get expensive for families with some private insurance policies. We believe that no pediatric patient should quit going to medically necessary therapy due to inability to pay, without having investigated the...
Back To School Routines
With most of our local kids are starting school this week, the RSI occupational therapists would like to point out that back-to-school time is a great opportunity to get your children back into a schedule and daily routine! "A schedule provides predictability so that...
10 Years of the RSI Summer Horse Program
The Rehab Specialists of Idaho Summer Horse Program is winding down it’s 10th year of providing free (not billed privately or to patient insurance) horse therapy for current pediatric patients of RSI who have good attendance records. This year nearly 50 children...