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Featured Activity of the Month
Featured Activity of the Month
Sensory Garden Design & Maintenance
Engage in building a sensory garden to combine occupational therapy concepts, sensory stimulation, and physical movement. Start with designing, creating, and maintaining a sensory garden to gain the benefits of its cognitive and physical engagement.
Scoliosis Awareness
During the month of June, advocates around the US highlight information and promote education related to scoliosis. Like so many other disorders, early detection is key in administering the most effective treatment plan.
Fall-Proofing Your Home
As aging continues, we all experience changes in our bodies which affect our abilities. Many people become caretakers for their parents as they age and lose the capability to conduct their lives as independently as they once did. One major concern for most elderly individuals is the potential for an accidental fall and resulting injury.
Myasthenia Gravis
A result of neurological and immune dysfunction, myasthenia gravis affects voluntary muscles throughout the body. The communication between from the brain to the muscles is interrupted and therefore unable to send normal transmissions to make muscles move. Over time, muscles do not get as much activity and begin to fatigue rapidly.
Therapy Tune-Up: Jigsaw Puzzles
The practice of putting a jigsaw puzzle together can help you reduce stress and unwind while spending time alone or with family or friends. Doing puzzles helps develop fine motor skills, visual perceptual skills, visual spatial processing, and organization. This practice can improve brain function, uses both sides of your brain, and provides a short term memory boost.
National Safety Month - Home Safety for Seniors
During National Safety Month, we always aim to focus on the ways families and individuals can stay safe - particularly in their home environment. Home is a place where you should be able to relax, spend quality time with your family, and a place where everyone in your household feels safe, secure, and comfortable.
Family Health & Wellness
Learning to maintain health as a part of your every day routine is very important to being at a young age, but applies to us all at any age throughout our lifetime. Engaging in physical activity not only keeps your body healthier by keeping it active, moving, and strong, but it also strengthens our mental health at the same time.
Therapy Tune-Up: Health & Wellness Challenge
For this month’s Therapy Tune-Up, we are introducing a health and wellness challenge! It is easy to participate and easy to make progress.
PTSD Awareness
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is a mental health condition that affects individuals who have experienced traumatic events. It is a debilitating disorder that can lead to a wide range of symptoms including anxiety, depression, and other avoidance behaviors.
Therapy Tune-Up: Origami Folding
After learning the steps to create your paper art, origami can become a meditative activity to aid in developing your mindfulness practice. You can use any kind of paper in any color or pattern.
Developing a Healthy Work-Life Balance as a Busy Professional
In today's fast-paced world, it's easy to feel overwhelmed by the demands of work and personal life. As a busy professional, it's important to prioritize your health and well-being by developing a healthy work-life balance.
Therapy Tune-Up: Mindful Eating Exercise
Any practice or activity can be improved with increased mindfulness. Helping your mind and body engage eating with more curiosity can help reduce cravings and establish healthier eating habits.
Spring Scene Sequencing Cards
A Spring-Themed Sequencing & Language Activity for Adults
Support communication, cognition, and functional thinking through seasonal, real-life sequencing scenarios.
Therapeutic Thinking Crossword Puzzle
Therapeutic Thinking Crossword Puzzle is a cognitive activity that combines the brain-stimulating challenge of crossword puzzles with words that center around mindfulness and calming. The aim of this activity is to improve mental cognition while promoting relaxation and mental health.
Positivity Prompt Cards
Setting the course of your day can have a great impact on the positivity that you notice and extend in your life. Daily affirmations are a great way to check-in with your mental health and try to focus on the positive.
Sensory Countdown Worksheet
Meditation, journaling, yoga, habit tracking, and routine setting are all great actions to take when assessing your own behavioral and mental health. Mindfulness practices are wonderful ways to learn how to ground yourself, reduce anxiety, and be present to experience moments in your life.
Sound Hunt
This simple sound hunt is a great way to improve articulation, phonemic awareness, and listening skills. It can be done anywhere, even as you take a walk through your neighborhood or at a park.
Stretch Cards for Seniors
As we age, it is important to maintain elasticity in our muscles and joints to prevent aches and pains that will naturally occur. Stretching, although sometimes overlooked by many, is a simple and highly effective way to keep your body’s flexibility intact.
Balloon Volleyball
Play this simple game you can set up at home to improve balance, strength, range of motion, and hand-eye coordination. All ages can play!
Story Starter Jar
Playing this game is a great way for anyone to improve creativity, critical thinking, and storytelling skills by using a prompt. The supplies and process to set up the game are simple and quick.