Parents & Teachers

Are you wondering how teachers can fit exercise into their busy lives? As you know, it isn’t easy. Between teaching, grading, lesson planning, and your life outside of school, there isn’t always time left over for working out.

Resistance bands can be a great tool to keep children entertained and engaged while they get the recommended 30 minutes a day of exercise. Bands are a way to add resistance to a child’s activity without the dangers and cost of weights.

Balance balls are often used to assist children with poor posture or back problems to help them build core strength during a workout. Balance balls have also become a popular treatment modality for children with ADD/ADHD, autism, and other types of sensory integration challenges. Teachers and occupational therapists use balance balls to help children improve their gross motor skills and manage sensory integration.

Learn how more movement can lead to greater stillness and improved attention with the use of a balance ball!

If you work with children who have attention and behavioral issues, emotional and sensory overload, or poor motor skills, they may benefit from activities that build neural connections for higher learning. Children have very active brains and might find it difficult to focus on a task for too long. Brain breaks allow periods of rest from continuous studying to improve learning and reduce stress.

Does your child need to strengthen their grip strength or pinching skills? Learn how therapy putty can help!

As the winter semester creeps closer, are you struggling to decide if you are going to stick with your schooling decision from first semester? It can be challenging to decide if the in-person instructional benefits outweigh the risk the pandemic presents and there are several other considerations too.

Learn about the benefits and drawbacks to both in-person and remote learning. Then after you’ve made your decision, check out additional tips on infection prevention, pod learning, and more!

For new mothers who’ve recently had a C-section delivery, congratulations on your new baby! Exercise will look a little different for you for the next several weeks. Having a C-section requires a bit more recovery time in order to heal properly and avoid complications. Regaining strength gradually will help you return to doing the activities you love with ease.

Fortunately, we’ve come up with a few exercises to help you strengthen the core without disrupting the healing process!

Proper positioning is crucial for children with motor and cognitive impairments. Standers, floor seats, wedges, and other positioning aids can help your child get into the right position for interacting, eating, playing, socializing, and more.

Explore all your options in this guide to positioning a special needs child!

If you’re looking for unique gift ideas, you’re in the right place. Chosen to help develop skills like fine and gross motor skills, balance, socialization, and more, these gifts are fun and functional. The variety of gifts mean you can find presents for children with physical disabilities and/or intellectual disabilities. Many of the toys help children with autism meet their sensory needs too. We’ve organized these gifts by price so you can find the perfect holiday or birthday gift to meet your child’s needs.