Green Mountain OT

08/06/2025

This is a great idea!

https://www.facebook.com/share/v/18TyVNdpon/

07/30/2025

With Your Therapy Source – I just got recognized as one of their top fans! 🎉

07/10/2025

More diversity representation in children's toys. This would be good for both children with diabetes and without diabetes.

Barbie is launching its first doll with Type 1 diabetes, Mattel announced Tuesday.

The new doll features a continuous glucose monitor and insulin pump, two medical devices that people use, carry or wear when they have Type 1 diabetes, which is a chronic condition where the body doesn't make any or enough of the insulin hormone.

In addition to the doll, Barbie is also introducing two more dolls of Peloton fitness instructor Robin Arzón in the U.S. and model Lila Moss in the U.K., both of whom are Type 1 diabetes advocates.

Read more: https://abcnews.visitlink.me/5va8SX

06/07/2025

✍️ Handwriting Engages the Brain Like Nothing Else! 🧠

Research shows that handwriting stimulates more complex brain activity compared to typing! Using EEG technology, scientists found that writing by hand activates key brainwaves:

Theta waves: Critical for working memory and learning new information.

Alpha waves: Boost focus and long-term memory.

Typing, with its repetitive finger movements, can’t match the rich experience of handwriting, which involves vision, motor skills, and body awareness. Handwriting isn’t just a skill—it’s a brain workout! 🖋️✨

06/07/2025

This is why schools need to balance handwriting with Chrome Books and iPad use.

✍️ Handwriting Engages the Brain Like Nothing Else! 🧠

Research shows that handwriting stimulates more complex brain activity compared to typing! Using EEG technology, scientists found that writing by hand activates key brainwaves:

Theta waves: Critical for working memory and learning new information.

Alpha waves: Boost focus and long-term memory.

Typing, with its repetitive finger movements, can’t match the rich experience of handwriting, which involves vision, motor skills, and body awareness. Handwriting isn’t just a skill—it’s a brain workout! 🖋️✨

01/18/2025

Look at the differences between a typical younger child’s hand (left) and a typical older child's hand (right). I have parents asking regularly why their preschool aged child isn’t able to write yet. This is why! Their hands (and brains) are still developing and are not fully formed. So what should they be doing to support this? PLAY!! Playdough, colouring, cutting, gluing, playing outside, digging in dirt, sensory play, dress up play, science experiments, beading, puzzles, throwing balls, etc. All of these things help their hands develop. When they are physically ready to write, they will! No need to rush them, they will show you when they are ready!

08/29/2024

This!

Remember, mistakes are part of the journey! ✏️

08/13/2024

Today is National Left Handes Day. Left-handed people are a unique bunch. Read about it here.

How to Help those Left-Handed Children August 13, 2018 crocker456 By: Patricia Crocker, OTR/L, M.ED As a child, I was appalled when my Grandmother told me that her teachers used to hit her left hand when she tried to write with her left hand. My Grandmother referred to herself as a “Southpaw”. T...

07/30/2024

Handwriting is not antiquated:

Children aren’t learning cursive or even decent printing anymore, and it is to their detriment. By Beth Ann Rosica

06/01/2024

04/06/2024

I'm having fun at the VT Occupational Therapy Conference at Lake Morey.