In occupational therapy, there are many ways to motivate your child to practice their fine motor, sensory, and sensory-motor skills at home. Here are some apps and game that will assist in their development: iPads and Tablets: Temple Run and Fruit Ninja with visual scanning and tracking as well as sustained attention skills Dora ABCs and ABC tracing games are great apps to improve handwriting and letter formation while also making it enjoyable for your child. Cookie Maker and

Many parents today favorite choice of distraction or behavioral redirection is a tablet, phone, or iPad. In some circumstances, it is acceptable to redirect a child’s attention to a screen. Suppose you’re in a doctors’ office with your child waiting to receive wellness shots; it is an acceptable opportunity to use a screen to calm and ease a very stressful situation for your child. Using screens has its advantages and disadvantages. Some cons of screen use include: Using a sc

Long gone are the days when speech therapy meant tedious exercises in pronunciation. Instead, an onslaught of apps makes language development genuine fun for children. Whether you have a laptop or an iPad, these programs are easily accessible and often free. ABC Alphabet Phonics Comprehensive and colorful, ABC Alphabet Phonics helps children who struggle with letter name identification. Toca Kitchen Monsters Children practice labeling, following directions, and vocabulary by

In today's world kids are now surrounded by media all throughout their day, and such media can have both a positive and negative impact on their development. So when and how much media and technology is okay for young children? While every child and form of media is different, in the fall of 2016 the largest group of pediatricians in the country, the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), released a new set of recommendations for media use in children. The AAP stated that at a