When you think of a child with Attention Deficit Disorder you picture a child who can’t sit still, pay attention or follow directions. Maybe you picture a little boy bopping around the classroom or a little tazmanian devil running circles around his mom and dad.
A few days ago a friend came up to me in music class and asked “so, what’s with the w-sitting?” She recently read an article in a parenting magazine that said w-sitting was harmful to the hips and knees and limits trunk development. Of her 2 year old twins one was a frequent w-sitter and now […]
Joni Daichman, MSPT, Tracy Cueli-Dutil, DPT and Roberto Tuchman, M.D. Paper presented at the Geneva Centre Internal Symposium on Autism, Toronto, Canada (October 2002) There has been an increased interest in the relationship between motor function, cognition, attention, language development and social communication disorders over the last few years.(Gillberg 1998; Landgren, Kjellman et al. 1998; […]
Originally published in Autism Spectrum, Winter 2005 Movement is an integral part of our social, emotional, and physical lives. A 4-month old excitedly kicks her arms and legs in response to the funny face dad makes, so he does it again. An 8-month old will crawl to retrieve her favorite rattle, shake it to hear […]
The destruction in Haiti made me think about how children with autism and other disabilities are coping and surviving. I found the following article on a center for children in Haiti with developmental disabilities. The work they had done is so admirable, but now they are going to be starting over again. via Autism in Haiti | […]