Dr. Carly Bobal

03/06/2025

New Blog Post! Strategies to Improve Working Memory in Children

How to support my child’s working memory: Working Memory is part of your child’s short-term memory. It is the part of the brain that helps with briefly holding onto, working with, and prioritizing small bits of information. Children with weaker working memory skills (compared to their other stre...

08/23/2024

New Blog Post! 7 Tips to Ease the Back-To-School Transition

As we approach the end of summer, it’s a time filled with mixed emotions. There are often feelings of both excitement and anxiety about the coming school year. Whether you're returning to familiar halls or starting fresh in a new environment, being prepared can make all the difference. Here are a ...

08/17/2024

Brain drain is real.

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07/29/2024

What a great resource in neurodevelopmental trauma from Stephanie Grant, PhD 💜🧡💚

07/20/2024

New Blog Post! ADHD symptoms that impact Reading

Many children and adults with ADHD struggle with aspects of reading. While reading skills are essential for academic and learning success, not all children who struggle to read have reading disabilities or Dyslexia. Some of the most common reading difficulties that children with ADHD experience incl

03/28/2024

New Blog Post! Working Memory Strategies for Children

Working Memory is a part of your child’s short-term memory. It allows their brain to hold onto and simultaneously work with small bits of information for a brief period of time. While it is common to believe that most difficulties with reading, math, or other aspects of academic learning efficienc...

01/10/2024

Visual tracking is typically defined as the ability to efficiently move the eyes from left to right (or right to left, up and down, and circular motions) OR focusing on an object as it moves across a person’s visual field.

This skill is important for almost all daily activities, including reading, writing, cutting with scissors, drawing, and playing. According to typical development of visual processing, the ability to visually track objects emerges in children around the age of five.

Read about this skill and how tracking impacts function: https://www.theottoolbox.com/what-is-visual-tracking/

And here are tips and tricks to support this skill development: https://www.theottoolbox.com/visual-tracking-tips-and-tools-for/