Thriving in School

Why do we demand that students face the front with eyes on the adult during a talk or lecture?  Read this post on Everyone Listens Different...

OTs love bubble wrap.  It is such a sensory experience...the feel, the sound, the excitement!  We tape a sheet at the entrance of our room w...

Habits...they are good when they are established, but boy can they break down! I have gotten out of the "habit" of communicating ...

09/09/09 Here are some fun activities you can do in class today to celebrate the number nine. Thanks to Jen at Far-Out Links to Learning ...

Summer is a valuable time for removing yourself from routine tasks and dreaming a bit. Where did your path lead you? Are your ready for the...

As you set up your rooms this week, why not add digital jobs to your job chart? In addition to "line leader" and "table washe...

OTs have a fascination with hands. It is through our hands that we interact with the world around us. Our hands calm others, take in infor...

Now you can get a free account to My Webspiration, an online web mapping tool. They opened the site up to new users again, so go for it. M...

My colleague Lindsay and I just completed teaching a course on "barrier-free learning", incorporating Universal Design for Learnin...

Would you be so kind to complete this short form if you work with students on the autism spectrum. We will share the results with you! p...

I am so excited to be heading down to Philadelphia tomorrow for EduCon 2.1 . It is a wonderful experience driven by these guiding principle...

We've had our fair share of ice here in the Boston area recently. Yesterday the Boston Globe gave some tips on navigating safely on this...

photo by mathewlees According to the Boston Globe this morning, the impact of your social network may be greater than you think. A study ci...

Occupational therapists see function in most objects. 7 am - picked up on curbside after spotting it on a morning run 9 am - new life as a...

My K12 Online Conference presentation, Changing Disabilities to Possibilities - Using the MacGyver Approach is coming up this week. Here is...

Are you listening to the conversations? Going on right now is a free online conference for k - 12 educators. Check it out at the K12 Online...

On my previous post, Jeff Utecht left a comment which I rejected accidentally when I was moderating it. My only defense was that it was wa...

Collaborating with parents is so important. I often wonder how can we do a better job. I first came upon Parents as Partners website tha...

Does learning stop when the bell rings and your students leave the four walls of your classroom? We were on Second Beach in Middletown , RI ...

Summertime is a time to connect with nature. If you happen to be close to the water, you have daily reminders of this. I always know when s...

I realize that summer agrees with me. I get to be outdoors, in the light, for many hours. I get to move in many different ways: swim, bike, ...

During the Building Learning Communities Conference this July, I kept my eyes and ears open to how it felt to participants attending a day l...

There was a lot swimming around in my head this summer that never made it down to the page. I thought I would write five short blog posts a...

An international all-day "meetup" of educators interested in talking and learning about Web 2.0 technologies, will take place on M...

Keeping sensory seekers in their seat is not easy. We use a variety of solutions, from Move'n Sit cushions to wrapping Theraband arou...

We love bubble wrap. We have it taped to the wall for finger warm ups. We put it on the floor to practice jumping or to get re-energized....

One thing I hate when I search for images is scrolling to the bottom and clicking "next" to get to the following page. "Scrol...

In the last post I tried a new application that gives you the option to hear the text. Some of us may not have needed it, some may have fou...

I cringe when I walk into a classroom and all the desks are the same height. Yes, they look ordered and they line up so well. Once you add...

Autism: The Musical This uplifting documentary explores one L.A. woman's pledge to lead a group of autistic children in defying diagnose...