Here is a new post from pediatric occupational therapist Angela Hanscom, author of a number of popular posts on this blog, including “Why so many kids can’t sit still in school today,” as well as “The right — and surprisingly wrong — ways to get kids to sit still in class”

It is important to think about child development and environmental factors before getting a diagnosis especially when your child is young.

Could your kid’s messy handwriting or trouble sitting still be traced back to those innate reflexes they had as infants? Here’s what you need to know about retained primitive reflexes. By Vanessa Grant

If you are wondering why your child is behaving badly they may have sensory integration difficulties which makes the world a very threatening place. Integrating the senses is an early developmental stage of childhood and can be helped by going back to basics and repeating movement patterns to help calm down the nervous system, moving from survival to growth.