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Meeting Milestones Children's Therapies

Pediatric Occupational Therapy Clinic, Pediatric Feeding Specialist

04/14/2025

Meet Lexi! We are thrilled to have her join our OT team!

01/07/2025

Please join us in welcoming our new occupational therapist, Stephanie. We are so excited to have such a talented and experienced occupational therapist at Meeting Milestones!

08/14/2024

To best service the needs of our clients and families we are looking to expand our staff. Therapists with experience preferred. Therapists who are trained in pediatric feeding therapy highly preferred.

09/21/2023

I am excited to announce Alicia Glynn will now also be treating clients in our Ipswich clinic space. Alicia has 25 years of experience working in pediatrics. Alicia is passionate about the relationships she builds with the children she works with and the families she supports.

Fun fact: Alicia was my occupational therapy supervisor during my pediatric clinical rotation right out of graduate school!

09/18/2023

🖍 Do you have a child learning to write the alphabet? If so, here are some tips to get them started!
✨ Uppercase letters are developmentally easier to form than lowercase letters. Uppercase letters all consist of big lines, little lines, big curves, and little curves.
✨ There is actually a sequence of prewriting shapes that should be mastered before being ready to form letters. The sequence progresses from vertical lines, horizontal lines, circles, cross, diagonal lines, square, X to triangle.
✨ Children just learning to write their letters benefit from visuals for letter placement and size. They do not yet understand left to right orientation. Using boxes is a great way to provide kids with a placement for each letter. It can also help them with their line placement by giving them cues to start in the corner or the center of the square for each letter.
✨ A visual model can be helpful while the child is learning and does not have memory of each letter yet.
✨ Long and thick writing tools are not ideal for small hands! It is best to break crayons into small pieces to encourage kids to grasp the crayon at their fingertips.
✨ Pencils, pens and markers slide along the paper easily and does not create much resistance for kids that are still developing motor control. Crayons are best for young writers as they provide more resistance for strengthening and motor control.

09/06/2023

When does toe walking become concerning? Though it’s a skill toddlers practice shortly after learning to walk, it becomes concerning when performed 80% of their day. A child’s foot starts off as mostly cartilage and over the course of their first six years develops into bones. If a child is predominately walking up on their toes, then the stress of this action will promote improper bone development in their feet. Once the bones have to fully developed, surgery may be needed. However, if addressed early enough, there are exercises that can be deployed to avoid such an outcome. Wonder what those exercises might be? Feel free to reach out!

08/31/2023

Torticollis is often recognized early on when a baby tends to hold their head tilted to one side. Congenital torticollis can be caused by the baby’s position in utero, such as being breech, and causes the muscle that run down the side of the neck (sternocleidomastoid) to be tight and shortened. It can also have an impact on all the muscles along that side of the body. As a result, a flat spot may develop on the opposite side of the head tilt. Typically, exercises can be used to help stretch and strengthen the muscles along the sides of the neck and trunk to improve range of motion and prevent flat spots from developing. If any of this sounds familiar, then we’d be happy to discuss your concerns.

08/28/2023

💪Kinesiology taping isn’t just beneficial for athletes! For kids, kinesiology tape provides continuous input for postural development and motor learning. It’s placement either tells muscles to “wake up/ turn on” or can be used to stretch muscles that are firing too much. It provides increased body awareness through sensory feedback to the tactile and proprioceptive systems. It can also help stabilize joints, while supporting and strengthening muscles. Your child may benefit from the use of kinesiology tape for their self-hep, oral motor, fine motor and gross motor skills.

08/25/2023

You know those long, busy days that you just need to vent to a spouse or friend to decompress? This is a co-regulation strategy we have learned that helps regulate our emotions and arousal state. Throughout childhood, children are observing and learning regulation skills. They are not yet able to regulate on their own and often requires more co-regulation from their parents and others around them. As adults, we can do many things to help our children co-regulate. For example, we can help to identify and label emotions for our children (let them know their feelings are heard). It is actually neurologically calming to hear your emotions being labeled. As parents, we can be present with our children while they are allowed to express their emotions in a safe manner (think of it as allowing them to empty their cup that is over flowing with emotions). We can also assist them by setting up a calming environment that allows them to change their emotional/arousal state easier. Activities that require a child to use their muscles, such as pushing/pulling or carrying weighted items, as well as jumping and crashing, can be calming due to the release of chemicals from our muscles and joints. Oral motor activities that require blowing or sucking to regulate breathing are also great to practice and incorporate into your child’s daily routine. These can activities can include blowing bubbles, drinking through a restrictive straw, or drinking thickened liquids through a straw. For children, regulating emotional and arousal levels can be very challenging. If you need more strategies or help teaching your child these tools, please let us know!

08/21/2023

🎶Can music improve your child’s regulation? Integrated Listening System (ILS) is a listening program base on “neuroplasticity” (the brains ability to change and adapt to input). ILS is a listening program that uses music that has been designed to provide gentle and specific stimulation to strengthen the neural pathways that process sensory information. Different programs are offered to target sensory motor, attention, auditory processing and executive functioning skills. Music, movement, exercises and breathing techniques are used to help a child’s nervous system regulate. 🎧ILS home supervision programs, as well as use of the program in sessions are offered at MMCT.

08/14/2023

🦶Left foot, right foot, now both!

Bilateral coordination isn’t just about being able to use both sides of the body together in a coordinated manner. When a child uses their two hands together to clap/play tambourines (same action), bead and cut with scissors (opposite actions), as well as climb stairs (alternating actions) there is a lot of communication happening in the brain. The right side of the brain controls the left side of the body and the left side of the brain, controls the right side of the body. When both hemispheres are working together in a coordinated manner the connection between the two hemispheres is strengthened (think of it as pathway allow information through) and brain organization is occurring! 🧠

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197 High Street, Suite 105
Ipswich, MA
01938

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Monday	8am - 5pm
Tuesday	8am - 5pm
Wednesday	8am - 5pm
Thursday	8am - 5pm
Friday	8am - 5pm

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http://www.meetingmilestones.net/

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