Skills Haven Therapy Solutions

27/12/2025

👀 Visual processing and visual perceptual skills are not the same thing!

Both are essential for learning, movement, and everyday tasks but they describe different parts of how the brain makes sense of what we see. 🧠

When educators and therapists understand this difference, they can better support students who struggle with visual information. 💪

19/12/2025

🧠✨ Understanding Stimming: What School Staff Need to Know

Stimming is a natural and meaningful way many children regulate their bodies, emotions, attention, and thinking. It shows up as movement, sounds, touch, visual patterns, or repetition.

🔄 While it’s often misunderstood, research and autistic lived experience show that stimming is not misbehavior. It’s a powerful regulation and communication tool that helps students feel safe and organized.

🧩 Stimming can support focus, reduce stress, manage sensory input, and even help with thinking and problem solving. For many students, it makes learning possible.

🤝 Stimming only becomes a concern when it causes harm or creates safety issues. In most cases, acceptance and understanding go further than correction.

🌱 When school staff understand why stimming happens, classrooms become more supportive, inclusive, and effective for all learners.

19/12/2025

17/12/2025

Please be guided with our December schedule.

Wishing you a joyful holiday season filled with love and laughter.

09/12/2025

08/12/2025

What many of these every-day activities do for your child…

Activities like these can help kids in a number of different ways when it comes to foundational development. Building foundational skills can support a child’s higher level of learning and aids the brain in developing neural connections.

When this happens, learning becomes automatic without the child having to struggle or without them having to put in large amounts of mental effort to keep up with the other kids.

Providing more opportunities like these can help kids do the following:

🤾Strengthens fine motor for writing and letter directionality
🤾Build proprioception and vestibular input for attention and focus
🤾Creates more impulse control
🤾Develops executive function

To get started, do the following:

1. 🔗Click the link in the profile or grab it here: https://ilslearningcorner.com/activities-encouraging-kids-to-work-on-vertical-spaces/

2. 📖Read the article on the importance of vertical spaces.

3. 💬Send us a DM or email us at info@ilslearning.com with one activity you’d like to try with your child using vertical spaces and we’ll send you a free packet.

08/12/2025

🎈 Play is medicine for the developing brain! 🧠

Every laugh, game, and pretend adventure helps kids:
- Build focus, memory, and self-control
- Grow creativity, problem-solving, and teamwork
- Develop social and emotional resilience

🛡️ Make daily play a priority. Screen time can’t replace the magic of active, imaginative play!

08/12/2025

Did you know that impaired proprioception can affect a child's body awareness?

Learn the importance of body awareness in children and focus on the impact of impaired proprioception, which is the sense that allows us to know where our body is in space.

To learn more, visit our webpage here:

https://ilslearningcorner.com/2016-07-body-awareness-characteristics-impaired-poor-proprioception-child/