The Skills 4 Life Blog
Skills 4 Life Now Offers Tummy Time Classes!
Tummy Time & Your Child’s Development Tummy time, the amount of time your baby spends on their belly while awake and supervised, is the foundation of sensory motor skills development in an infant. According to a report published in the peer-reviewed...
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Skills 4 Life Occupational Therapy is pleased to announce the launch of our new website!
Our new website provides a clean, fully responsive design with improved functionality to help you find the information you need. In addition, we’ve updated the content to give you a clear understanding of who we are, the services we provide and how Skills 4 Life...
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Top 3 Reasons Why Handwriting is Critical to Your Child’s Success
Handwriting has been taught for centuries as a means of communication, but technology is changing the way we share information. You see the transition from paper to digital everywhere. Teachers give students the option to write or type their papers. Doctor offices ask...
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10 Tips to Prepare Your Child for Middle School
Transitioning to middle school can be an exciting, yet stressful and scary time for both you and your child. Be sure to put these 10 tips on your to-do list to help your student make the transition successfully. 1. Visit your child's new school once or twice before...
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10 Ways to Prepare Your Preschooler for Kindergarten
Wondering what to do this summer to prepare your child for kindergarten? Here are 10 ways to boost kindergarten readiness skills as presented in a Handwriting Without Tears webinar: 1. Let the Music Begin. Music encourages social-emotional, sensorimotor, and...
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Meet Yrma Perdomo!
In addition to all that Skills 4 Life has to offer, we are thrilled to announce that we will now be extending therapeutic services to the birth to four population. Skills 4 Life is proud to welcome Yrma Perdomo and Sense-Able Connections, to our team! Yrma Perdomo is...
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Fun Ways to Practice Handwriting
Handwriting practice is extremely valuable for multiple reasons, yet many students are resistive to doing it. Check out these valuable tips and tricks to help your child make the most of their handwriting practice. Handwriting strengthens fine motor and cognitive...
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Test Taking Tips to Help Students ACE Their Exams
It’s test-taking time and who wouldn’t want to guarantee success in ALL subjects? Luckily, there are several strategies that can help you to regulate your nerves and focus come test day. These helpful tips will improve information recall and processing speed. If you...
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12 Ways to Help Your Child Cross Midline
Crossing midline is an important developmental skill that is typically mastered when a child is 3 or 4 years old. Crossing midline is the ability to reach across the middle of the body to the other side. It creates connections in the brain by requiring the left and...
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10 Fun Letter Recognition Activities
Letter recognition is the ability to visually recognize letters, differentiate one letter from another, and name the letters of the alphabet. It is a foundational precursor towards learning letter sounds, spelling, reading, and writing. In fact, early skills in letter...
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