Misti Peppler OT

12/09/2025

Wow- this quote it me too. Love to all the parents just making the best decisions they can given the choices only they can see. 💛

11/23/2025

I’ve been advocating this for years.

HIGHLY DECORATED CLASSROOMS HURTS LEARNING.

For Montessori, simplicity and minimalism are the best. And research supports this idea.

Highly decorated classrooms can bombard students with too much visual information, interfering with their memory and their ability to concentrate, studies find
• https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0022096518300390.,
• https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0956797614533801)

These studies examine the relationship between classroom environment and student executive functions, which include skills like memory, attention and self-regulation.
While teachers mean well when decorating, many classrooms end up being “sensory rich” in a way that could hinder children’s learning rather than help.
Study results indicate that children may have a hard time ignoring visual distractions when integrated into the surrounding environment.

CLASSROOMS SHOULD BE ATTRACTIVE BUT NOT DISTRACTIVE
That doesn't mean all walls have to be bare. In 2015, a team of researchers from the UK analyzed 153 classrooms https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0360132315000700?via%3Dihub and found that students benefited most when the walls had some decorations. “Displays on the walls should be designed to bring a sense of life to the classroom, but without becoming chaotic.” As a general rule, between 20 and 50 per cent of the available wall space should be kept free,” the researchers wrote.

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Fuentes:
- Edutopia https://www.edutopia.org
- Association for Psychological Science (https://www.psychologicalscience.org/news/releases/heavily-decorated-classrooms-disrupt-attention-and-learning-in-young-children.html)
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11/22/2025

Oh man I relate to this…

11/11/2025

This is what distinguishes The Masgutova Method from other reflex programs, we are not looking to extinguish or inhibit the native reflex pattern, we are actually integrating it into our nervous system as a building block for more complex movement.

11/05/2025

Wow- I wish I’d had these tools when mine were little! I tried my best with what I was aware of, but I’m always seeing ways I could have done better. Maybe this can help parents with little now.

10/01/2025

I’ve been following her for a few years now and she always has interesting perspectives on the autistic experience. I share some his post because it so nicely describes the nervous system of those with autism compared with a neurotypical nervous system.

In my recent interview with Mark Talaga at Hopelessly Gifted he asked me about misdiagnosis and reflexes and my response was that when you start treating the symptomology of reflexes the symptomology of the disorder can calm down. As Janae writes here about the brain being an overgrown garden of synapses-when we are working on reflexes we are building stronger paths in an overgrown garden so communication between areas of the brain can communicate better. The visible symptoms of those over-connected brains start to reduce, leading to a life that’s a little bit easier.

09/30/2025

So I did this thing, I was interviewed on the Hopelessly Gifted Podcast by Mark Talaga to talk about reflexes. If you want a basic understanding of how they work and affect development give it a listen. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/21-why-should-i-think-about-my-childs-primitive-reflexes/id1782226713?i=1000728983992

09/24/2025

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09/22/2025

I stand with parents who need support, with individuals who just want life to be a little easier.

09/21/2025

For those who haven’t used sensory bins with your kids- don’t be afraid of the mess. The clean up afterwards teaches great skills as well!

Don't have a lot of time to prep activities? Try one of these simple sensory bin ideas at home!

09/06/2025

07/26/2025

I know I can be intense sometimes...😉
This month we explore Therapy Intensives as a way to engage with Peppler Occupational Therapy - read the blog post here https://www.pepplerot.com/news