Laura Graham Occupational Therapy

Earlier this month I was over in Bolonga, Italy presenting the recent research conducted with my fabulous music therapy colleague Leanne O'Keeffe. We recieved such a warm reception to our presentation, lots of engagement and a real buzz.

Yes to this! So often I am requested to provide advice around handwriting and educators looks at me a little bemused when the program I provide looks like crawling, high kneeling, siting on a gym ball to play catch but I am targeting the core muscles that are foundational to handwriting.

Skip the foundation, and the rest has nothing to stand on.

Understanding movement as the foundation for literacy. Great writers start as great movers. Let's explore how to give every child the physical foundation they need to thrive in our webinar Getting Ready to Write this week.

Learn more or register via link in comments.

Week one of the school holidays and Laura has been busy sorting and organising her resources. As community based children's therapists we don't travel light, ensuring that sessions are engaging, offer the just right challenge, meet a variety of sensory processing needs and can support participation and development of functional skills requires a lot of resources. See the before and after.

Last night and myself delivered the final module of our BREAD Approach to Regultion. This has been an exciting program of training for school staff that has looked at evidenced based, scientifically grounded, practical stratergies to support children and young people to manage their arousal levels, increase vagal tone and stay within their window of tolerance.

We are using this knowledge and clinical experience to share with attendees at the fabulous TES show on London in October in our workshop Regulate to Educate.

You can register for free at tessendshow.co.uk

Excited to be facilitating a workshop at this exciting Attachment Symposium alongside a great line up of professionals in the field. https://www.derby.ac.uk/events/latest-events/attachment-symposium/

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The Inspired Treehouse doing a fabulous job with these simple yet effective bilateral activities. We often recommend many of these to development the underlying skills needed for many functional skills. https://www.facebook.com/share/1Jr9j5bUPP/

🧩 Did you know that “bilateral coordination” means using both sides of the body together smoothly? It’s super important for things like tying shoes, cutting with scissors, eating, and so much more!

✨ What our top picks for Toys & activities that encourage both arms to work together help build motor planning, strength, & coordination? Drop a 👏🏼 below. ✨