Thriving in School

No, I am not talking about the ones eating my son's computer cable at his house in Philly, shared with other City Year volunteers. I...

Occupational therapy is skilled treatment that helps individuals achieve independence in all facets of their lives. ...

Autism Spectrum Quarterly — the MAGAJOURNAL™ - a magazine for parents, teachers and clinicians that translates research into practice. Vis...

Gretchen Rubin has a blog, The Happiness Project , which is the title of her upcoming book dealing with the challenges of being happy. In h...

April is Autism Awareness Month. Visit the Gray Center for Social Understanding and Learning to read more. It is dedicated to improving t...

Do your searching on GoodSearch, a Yahoo-powered search engine that donates money to your favorite charity or school each time you search th...

March is the Read-a-thon month here at Hosmer School. Catch your child or grandchild reading and send them an e-card created by award winn...

Therapro After School Series for Teachers, Therapists and Parents Therapro's After School Series continues in April with a two-part sem...

How did we miss it this year? In case you are curious, National Handwriting Day was celebrated on January 23, John Hancock's birthday. ...

Want to learn how to keyboard or brush up on your keyboarding skills? Check out this website . The site contains a list of web sites that h...

The previous site also has bingo cards you can customize.

Use your child's interests to engage them in tasks. This site lets you create your own custom chore charts . You choose the theme that...

Are you intrigued by the video you watched on Dr. Temple Grandin? Here is an article she wrote on Thinking in Pictures . It is equally as ...

Why would a leaf on a path cause a cow to stop dead in its tracks? Watch this video on Dr. Temple Grandin titled "The Woman Who Think...

Another hour of light graces us in the evening. The days are getting longer. Exposure to light is known to enhance both alertness and perfo...

Honoring differences is what we strive for as occupational therapists. This starts with understanding. The blog School OT thoughts talks ab...

What you see is what you get...not really! Be sensitive to how we present visual information to our students. Sometimes we don't ...

Never before has it been so easy to produce and share content, whether it is music, video or writing. You can even publish and sell your ow...

Students do a variety of writing in school, by hand and on the computer. Providing experiences with both is beneficial, but don't use a ...

Check out the new resource library located in room 213. We've just added some fun activity folders that work on color, letter recognitio...

Create and share your projects online and access them from anywhere. Have you looked beyond the basic search feature of Google? One useful...

I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it. Pablo Picasso It is so easy to be a life long learner this...

Fifteen years ago, the web went world wide. That means the students we work with at Hosmer School are all born AWWW (after world wide web)...

Here is a video my nephew created trying to clean his room. Although it took four days, you can watch the process in 26 seconds. If only i...

Material Spatial Disorganization is a term coined by Dr. Mel Levine from All Kinds Of Minds . It refers to a challenge in organizing our p...

Continuing on with the theme of accessibility, this is a nice strategy for those students who need to "see" the contents of their ...

Please Pop! We tape a sheet of bubble wrap on the wall next to the door of the OT/PT room. This gives students a chance to pop a few bubble...

As occupational therapists working in schools, we have a unique job. Our primary focus is to improve the occupational performance of childr...

One teacher wondered where in her classroom she would fit suitable sensory activities. They don't necessarily need a lot of space. Hav...

Now that we are striving for order, let's be realistic. Piles happen. After all , if a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, t...