Mosaic Health & Rehab - Belgrade

03/06/2026

This week’s activity is… 🏠❄️ Cabin Fever Busters

Stuck inside this winter? Movement helps kids regulate their bodies, improve focus, and reduce meltdowns. Try these indoor activities to burn energy and boost calm — no snow boots required!

1) Snowball Target Toss - Roll socks into “snowballs” and toss into laundry baskets or taped targets.
Skills:
✔️ Eye-hand coordination
✔️ Grading force
✔️ Core stability
✔️ Turn-taking

2) Penguin Waddle Races - Hold a pillow or ball between knees and waddle across the room.
Skills:
✔️ Core strength
✔️ Balance
✔️ Motor planning
✔️ Body awareness

3) Ice Block Push - Push a laundry basket weighted with books or blankets.
Skills:
✔️ Heavy work
✔️ Regulation
✔️ Core + shoulder stability

03/05/2026

Register here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeT3jAzXKkYVhcp448O8PocIHCPZsGKeME6W87kRe4SDHQtkQ/viewform

03/05/2026

📚🧠 Vocabulary Growth in Tweens & Teens

Ever wonder how many new words tweens and teenagers learn each year?

👉 About 2,000–3,000 words.

How does it happen? Mostly through reading — in school and for fun.

So skip the flash cards and encourage reading instead. It’s one of the most powerful ways to build vocabulary naturally.

✨ More reading = more words.

03/04/2026

Meet Tiina, one of our phenomenal Occupational Therapists at MOSAIC Health & Rehab! 💙

03/04/2026

🧠📖 Predicting Reading Success

One of the strongest predictors of reading success is phonemic awareness — the ability to hear and work with sounds in spoken words. Most kids acquire this skill in first grade.
At Mosaic Health & Rehab, we help children who struggle with reading and writing by starting with listening, not letters.

👂 What we focus on:
• Short sessions (30 minutes or less)
• Identifying and moving sounds in syllables
• Creating and blending “nonsense words”
• No reading at first — it’s all listening

Once children build strong sound awareness, we move into direct reading instruction.

✨ This approach has helped children with dyslexia, ADHD, and language learning disorders succeed in reading and writing.

03/03/2026

We're starting a new offering at Mosaic Health & Rehab - Belgrade after lots of moms have asked! We are limiting spaces each week to about 10 families as to reduce the interruption to our therapy kiddos. Registration link will be added to our website shortly, but for now, feel free to call, message, or email to save your spot. This will be consistent every Thursday for at least the next few months. 🙂

03/02/2026

🌟 Milestone Monday: Crossing Midline

Around ages 3–4, children begin consistently crossing midline — reaching across their body with one hand instead of switching hands. This skill helps develop coordination between both sides of the brain and supports handwriting, reading, and daily self-care tasks.

You might see this when your child:
🎨 Reaches across the page while coloring
⚾ Uses one hand to grab toys on the opposite side
🪥 Brings a toothbrush across the mouth smoothly
🥄 Uses the same hand while eating instead of switching back and forth

Try encouraging it through big rainbow drawings, sticker games, or reaching activities during play!

02/28/2026

Drooling can be a benign side effect of teething or upper respiratory infections 🤧🦷. When drooling persists outside of these circumstances, however, it may signal an underlying issue with oral strength, coordination, or sensation.

Treatment programs are customized to fit each child's specific needs and development, including referral to additional resources as appropriate. MOSAIC has therapists trained in Orofacial Myofunctional Therapy, Oral Placement Therapy, and Feeding Therapy who are happy to support you and your children 💙✨.

02/28/2026

02/26/2026

Try this at home! 👃✨

Nose breathing helps clean and moisten the air before it reaches your lungs—keeping them healthier. When we breathe through our nose, our tongue can rest high in the mouth, which supports proper development of the teeth, palate, and airway.

Some ways to make nose breathing fun:
✓ Puzzles or games can be fun, quiet activities to do while nose breathing
✓ Let your child pick out a fun sticker to place on their lips to remind them to stay closed
✓ Have a friendly competition to see who can breathe through their nose longer

Make sure to watch your child and follow their lead if they are having difficulty breathing through their nose. Try reducing the amount of time spend nose breathing or discontinue and ask your provider if you have concerns your child is not getting enough oxygen.

Take a moment today to check: lips closed, teeth lightly together, tongue resting up. Healthy habits start small! 💙

02/25/2026

How can Orofacial Myofunctional Therapy (OMT) help? 👄✨

This MOSAIC client has been dedicated throughout OMT treatment and is seeing amazing results while preserving the risk of orthodontic relapse. The photo depicts a 6 month span in OMT treatment with the following results:

✔️ Improved dental occlusion including less central incisor splaying and anterior gaps closing
✔️ Improved jaw and lip strength
✔️ Improved nasal breathing
✔️ Improved productions of /s/ and /r/ speech sounds
✔️ Correction of swallow pattern pressing against teeth.