Tips for Therapy, Home, and School I came across the work of Marti Smith, OTR when I was still in the therapy office. We developed a friendship across the miles as I was working on Riley the Brave’s Sensational Senses. And when her new book Sensory Healing after Developmental Trauma came out, I scooped it right up! One of the things […]

A Back-to-School Guide for Parents and Therapists As I write this, the back-to-school season is in full swing here in the U.S., bringing a hearty mix of emotions to the surface for everyone involved. Whether you find yourself excited each fall or overwhelmed or nostalgic or anxious or all of the above, this blog post […]

Students learn better when their brains are not clouded by worries. Our minds can’t attend to very many things at once. When kids are preoccupied by tough stuff happening outside of school, friend struggles, or other worries, there’s not much room for math facts and grammar lessons. That’s a topic I explore in the first […]

How learning about sensory processing changed… everything. My brilliant little 4-year-old son was asked to draw a house at preschool and burst into tears. Bursting into tears was a common occurrence for him, as was picky eating, complaining about jeans and shirt tags, banging into things, difficulty transitioning from one task to the next, slouching […]