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How To Use An Exercise Ball With Your Kids

Circle Creek Therapy

Dec 27, 2018
1 min

How To Use An Exercise Ball With Your Kids

In our the blog post “Core-Not Just a 6-pack," I talked about the importance of core strengthening for children and how it can improve their endurance, coordination, fine and gross motor skills. We gave a few examples of how to get your kids to actively participate. Today, we are going to talk fun ways to use an exercise ball with your kids that will strengthen their core. Have your child sit on a small ball bouncing up and down. While bouncing on the ball, pretend to ride a

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Figure Ground

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Dec 27, 2018
1 min

Figure Ground

What is Figure Ground? The ability to perceive a form and find it hidden in a conglomerated ground of matter. Visual figure-ground refers to the ability to locate & identify shapes & objects embedded in a busy visual environment, or the ability to attend to one activity without being distracted by other surrounding stimuli. Can cause problems with: attending to a word on a printed page due to her/his ability to block out other words around it filtering out visual distractions

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Visual Closure

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Dec 19, 2018
1 min

Visual Closure

What is Visual Closure? This reflects a child's ability to look at an incomplete shape, object or amount, and fill in the missing details in order to identify what it would be if it were complete. This skills requires abstract problem solving. Can cause problems with: -student's ability to write - using worksheets or test forms that are poorly photocopied - copy something if he/she cannot see the complete presentation of what is to be copied - complete partially drawn picture

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My Son Isn't Talking

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Dec 19, 2018
2 min

My Son Isn't Talking

My son isn’t talking. There, I said it. I’m a speech-language pathologist; I own my own rehabilitation therapy clinic. This is what I do for a living, and my son has an expressive language delay. My son spends his days in my clinic, interacting with clients, parents and siblings, and the rest of my therapy team, and he has me at home too. He gets “speech” from all sides, all the time, but he’s still behind. I feel guilty for feeling frustrated with him when he’s getting upset

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Core Muscles - Not Just a 6-pack

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Dec 18, 2018
2 min

Core Muscles - Not Just a 6-pack

In my experience, many times people hear the phrases “core stability” or “core strength” and think as physical therapists we are talking about having “abs of steel,” but that is not the case. Our core muscles are the foundation muscles that allow movement to occur. Your "core" is made up of muscles located in the back, front, and sides-starting from your neck down to your hips. If these muscles are not strong, arm movements and fine motor skills as well as leg movements and g

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Visual Memory

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Dec 11, 2018
1 min

Visual Memory

What is Visual Memory? This reflects the child's ability to store visual details of what has been seen in the short-term memory. If details aren't stored, there will also be difficulty accurately recalling, and in some instances reproducing, all of the characteristics of a given item. Can cause issues with: - reproducing figures (letters, shapes, or symbols) from memory - mixing lower & uppercase letters - copying from a text or chalkboard (the child would tend to copy only l

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"Straight From the Heart" Interview Series: Rachael Conrad

Circle Creek Therapy

Dec 3, 2018
4 min

"Straight From the Heart" Interview Series: Rachael Conrad

Rachael Conrad is an incredible, loving, & devoted mother. She has two children, & her youngest son, Seeley, is diagnosed with autism. Autism is a disorder that is usually diagnosed when a person struggles with forming or maintaining relationships, communicating well with others, or they experience having to repeat certain behaviors many times. A person with autism is not the same as the next person, since there are some individuals who range from high to low functioning. Rac

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