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Holiday Harmony: Navigating Transitions with Your Kiddo for Stress-Free Celebrations

Holidays, Parenting Resources / By Connect the Dots

Transitions can be particularly challenging for children, and the holiday season often brings about changes in routines and environments. Here are three simple tips to support your child during the holidays, especially when transitions are hard: Establish Predictable Routines: While the holidays may have a tendency to disrupt your usual routines, try to establish or […]

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Sitting Development

Uncategorized, Parenting Resources, Physical Therapy / By Connect the Dots

Independent and proficient sitting is a skill that is typically developed around 9 months of age. Your child may start to demonstrate prop sitting (sitting with hands on ground) as early as 5 months, but may only be able to balance for a couple of seconds. In order for a baby to start sitting independently

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Bilateral Coordination

Uncategorized, Gross Motor, Parenting Resources, Physical Therapy / By Connect the Dots

Bilateral coordination is the ability to move both sides of the body at the same time in a controlled manner. This is needed for many activities of daily living, and many play activities! Things like dressing, tying shoes, jumping, riding a bike, climbing stairs, catching, and running all require bilateral coordination. There are several

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5 Fun Gross Motor Activities for Fall

Physical Therapy, Holidays, Parenting Resources, Uncategorized / By Connect the Dots

Spooky Spider-Web Obstacle Course For this, you can use yarn, painters tape, or streamers for your child to step over, climb under, and crawl through the “web”. Make it extra spooky by adding toy spiders and having your child move slowly while moving by them. Pretend to be Zombies Zombie sit ups are a great,

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Private Practice vs. School Speech Therapy

Uncategorized, Parenting Resources, Speech Therapy / By Connect the Dots

What are the differences between speech therapy provided by schools versus private practitioners like those at Connect the Dots?

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Playground Playbook

Physical Therapy, Parenting Resources / By Connect the Dots

Playgrounds can be fun, exciting, and sometimes intimidating for kids and their parents. The playground provides many opportunities for children to play and learn, and almost every part of a playground can be turned into a therapeutic activity for your child. Here are some ways you can turn your next trip to the playground into

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Getting Ready for Kindergarten

Gross Motor, Fine Motor, Occupational Therapy, Parenting Resources, Physical Therapy, Speech Therapy / By Connect the Dots

Make sure your kindergartener is ready for their first day of school by reviewing this checklist of developmental milestones!

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Mastering Tummy Time: Tips to Make it Fun and Engaging!

Physical Therapy, Gross Motor, Parenting Resources, Uncategorized / By Connect the Dots

In our previous blog post, we talked about the importance of tummy time, how much tummy time your baby should be getting, and how to progress tummy time. Now that we have discussed all of the details of tummy time; it is time to discuss how we can make tummy time easier, more enjoyable, and

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Building Strong Foundations: The Importance of Tummy Time and Getting Started

Physical Therapy, Gross Motor, Parenting Resources, Uncategorized / By Connect the Dots

Tummy time is one of the first and most important activities for your baby to do. So, what exactly is tummy time and why is it so important? Tummy time is considered the period of time during the day when your baby is on their stomach while they are awake and supervised. It is important

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3 Strategies for Communication

Speech Therapy, At Home, Parenting Resources / By Connect the Dots

As parents, we all want our children to be effective communicators, but sometimes we struggle to know how to help them develop these skills. The good news is that there are simple and fun ways to practice communication skills with your child every day! We believe that practicing communication skills can be a fun and

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