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                                    • “Stop Moving Around!” – When Children Make Unusual Movements

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                                      |Date: June 30, 2017
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                                      “Stop Moving Around!” – When Children Make Unusual Movements

                                      “Stop Moving Around!” – When Children Make Unusual Movements

                                      By Judy Li, DO, Pediatric Neurologist, Neuroscience Institute, Valley Medical Center Could it be a seizur ...

                                      By Judy Li, DO, Pediatric Neurologist, Neuroscience Institute, Valley Medical Center Could it be a seizure? This is a question that pediatric neurologists come across on a daily basis. Parents are oft ...

                                      June 30, 2017
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                                    • Safety Tips to Prevent Children with Autism Wandering at Home, Community & School

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                                      |Date: June 30, 2017
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                                      Safety Tips to Prevent Children with Autism Wandering at Home, Community & School

                                      Safety Tips to Prevent Children with Autism Wandering at Home, Community & School

                                      Children with autism commonly have limited safety awareness and insight into dangers in their environment ...

                                      Children with autism commonly have limited safety awareness and insight into dangers in their environment. Sometimes they wander off. We need to support these kiddos by keeping them safe! Ideas for pr ...

                                      June 30, 2017
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                                    • Giving Us Things to Talk About!

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                                      |Date: May 16, 2017
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                                      Giving Us Things to Talk About!

                                      Giving Us Things to Talk About!

                                      Check out the many ways speech-language pathologists help patients improve communications and more.  At V ...

                                      Check out the many ways speech-language pathologists help patients improve communications and more.  At Valley Medical Center's Children’s Therapy clinic, our speech-language pathologists do so much! ...

                                      May 16, 2017
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                                    • If You Think Your Child Has Special Needs or Delayed Development, Children’s Therapy May Help

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                                      |Date: April 25, 2017
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                                      If You Think Your Child Has Special Needs or Delayed Development, Children’s Therapy May Help

                                      If You Think Your Child Has Special Needs or Delayed Development, Children’s Therapy May Help

                                      If your child is under age three and has special needs, or you are worried about the way your baby or tod ...

                                      If your child is under age three and has special needs, or you are worried about the way your baby or toddler is developing, your family may qualify for services to support his/her development. An eva ...

                                      April 25, 2017
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                                    • Celebrating 100 Years of Occupational Therapy

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                                      |Date: April 05, 2017
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                                      Celebrating 100 Years of Occupational Therapy

                                      Celebrating 100 Years of Occupational Therapy

                                      The Occupational Therapy profession turns 100 years old this year this month. As American OT professional ...

                                      The Occupational Therapy profession turns 100 years old this year this month. As American OT professionals, we have a long-standing history of providing services to clients and patients to help increa ...

                                      April 05, 2017
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                                    • Check Out These Backpack Strategies to Keep Your Kids Safe from Pain & Strain

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                                      |Date: August 30, 2016
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                                      Check Out These Backpack Strategies to Keep Your Kids Safe from Pain & Strain

                                      Check Out These Backpack Strategies to Keep Your Kids Safe from Pain & Strain

                                      Did you know that a child who is 100 pounds should carry a backpack weighing no more than 10 pounds? Acco ...

                                      Did you know that a child who is 100 pounds should carry a backpack weighing no more than 10 pounds? According to American Occupational Therapy Association recommendations, a child’s backpack should w ...

                                      August 30, 2016
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                                    • Outdoors for All: Recreational Activities Accommodating a Broad Range of Skill Levels

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                                      |Date: August 22, 2016
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                                      Outdoors for All: Recreational Activities Accommodating a Broad Range of Skill Levels

                                      Outdoors for All: Recreational Activities Accommodating a Broad Range of Skill Levels

                                      Outdoors for All provides a variety of recreation activities for individuals with disabilities. These act ...

                                      Outdoors for All provides a variety of recreation activities for individuals with disabilities. These activities are designed to accommodate a broad range of individual skill levels; from individuals ...

                                      August 22, 2016
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                                    • Vroom Gives You Free Activity Ideas for Integrating Daily Learning with Your Children

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                                      |Date: August 17, 2016
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                                      Vroom Gives You Free Activity Ideas for Integrating Daily Learning with Your Children

                                      Vroom Gives You Free Activity Ideas for Integrating Daily Learning with Your Children

                                      All parents can be brain builders with the free Vroom app! Parents can input their children's ages and re ...

                                      All parents can be brain builders with the free Vroom app! Parents can input their children's ages and receive daily texts with ideas for activities to do with their children, as well as advice for in ...

                                      August 17, 2016
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                                    • Get Free Safety Tips for your Family through The Center for Children with Special Healthcare Needs

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                                      |Date: August 15, 2016
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                                      Get Free Safety Tips for your Family through The Center for Children with Special Healthcare Needs

                                      Get Free Safety Tips for your Family through The Center for Children with Special Healthcare Needs

                                      The Center for Children with Special Healthcare Needs is an informative website offered by Seattle Childr ...

                                      The Center for Children with Special Healthcare Needs is an informative website offered by Seattle Children’s. One of their pages provides safety tip information regarding playground safety, fire safe ...

                                      August 15, 2016
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                                    • Journal Publishes Children’s Therapy Therapists’ Paper on Preliteracy Skills and Later Academic Success

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                                      |Date: June 17, 2016
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                                      Journal Publishes Children’s Therapy Therapists’ Paper on Preliteracy Skills and Later Academic Success

                                      Journal Publishes Children’s Therapy Therapists’ Paper on Preliteracy Skills and Later Academic Success

                                      Preliteracy skills are skills that must be mastered prior to a child learning to read, write, and consequ ...

                                      Preliteracy skills are skills that must be mastered prior to a child learning to read, write, and consequently excel with an academic environment. The Journal of Occupational Therapy, Schools & Ea ...

                                      June 17, 2016
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