By Samanta Rivas-Argueta, University of Toronto occupational therapy student Edited by Lizette Alexander OT Reg. (Ont) with appreciation Welcome to our new series titled: “A Child’s Occupations”. Over the next four weeks, we will be discussing various...
Written by: Timothy Spadzinski, Occupational Therapy Student Intern, University of Toronto Edited by: Lizette Alexander, OT Reg. (Ont) with appreciation In our first blog on Motor Learning, we introduced the question of why we DO things in certain ways. If you think...
Written by: Timothy Spadzinski, occupational therapy student, University of Toronto Edited by: Lizette Alexander, OT Reg. (Ont) with appreciation Every day we do tasks that require a few steps. Take washing your hands for example. We often do this automatically,...
by: Timothy Spadzinski, Occupational TherapyStudent Intern, University of Toronto All posts are reviewed by a supervising Occupational Therapist. Toronto Children’s Therapy Center is appreciative of the time and research, placement students commit to in writing posts...
Another argument for focusing on learning to write. I frequently hear arguments for not worrying about handwriting, the main one is that with technology, handwriting will no longer be necessary. However, handwriting is a kinesthetic approach to learning the...
Learning the Lost Art of Cursive Writing Picture this; you are in first year University about to write your midterm. So far, you’ve spent your entire educational career learning through a keyboard and with the support of auto-correct and have gained average (if...
