The Many Benefits of Children Falling Children Fall off the Beam During some of my first years working as a pediatric physical therapist, sometimes a student or observer would come watch me work. One of these students saw me working with kids on a balance beam. As they walked across the balance beam, often times, […]
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The Gift of Autism
As a pediatric physical therapist, I spent many years working with children with autism. These children each possess their own personalities, I cannot make generalizations about them. One thing I noticed without almost all my patients with autism, though, was what they taught me. When I first started working with kids, I remember seeing some […]
Play is a Child’s Work: The Importance of Play in Developing Gross Motor Skills A variety of therapists have used play therapy for quite some time. While researchers initially doubted it due to lack of research, practitioners reported success with the technique. It turns out now the research supports it too. So what are the […]