Home Learning & Sensory Strategies

11/11/2023

Does your child have a parent-teacher conference coming up?

If your child is struggling in any of the areas below, it may be time for an Occupational Therapy evaluation.

➡️ Difficulty sitting still
➡️ Sensory seeking/avoiding behavior interfering with school tasks
➡️ Handwriting challenges
➡️ Struggles to color, use scissors, puzzles
➡️ Difficulty identifying shapes, letters, numbers
➡️ Difficulty transitioning between tasks

Don’t forget to ask about all of the areas of educational skills! You are the voice for your child!!

10/17/2023

Thank you Mt. Lebanon Municipality - Government and Lebanon Magazine for highlighting my Occupational Therapy business! I’m thrilled to serve the South Hills community providing a convenient OT option for children and families 📝!

Reaching out to help children.

Parents with kids experiencing sensory processing challenges have an advocate in the South Hills.

Meet pediatric and occupational therapist Marianne Faber in the October issue of Mt. Lebanon Magazine. https://lebomag.com/sensory-strategies/

07/23/2023

Amazing walk/run event today to support Always B Smiling which provides adaptive bike experiences and programming for children with disabilities and their families on the Montour Trail! Please reach out for more info and consider donating to this incredible Pittsburgh resource to keep creating smiles😄

06/11/2023

We’ve had 5/6 Sensory Storytimes at the Mt Lebanon Library! We provide fun sensory activities, engaging books, and education to caregivers including a walk on river stones as we enter the room, planted seeds and played in the dirt, talked about feelings and played in rice bins talking about calm down strategies, blew bubbles for oral sensory input, games and songs to increase body awareness, and shaving cream painting to name a few!! 1 more session Friday and another 6 week series beginning August 4th.

Check out www.homelearningstrategies.com and reach out if I can help you incorporate these sensory strategies and more into a sensory diet to help you and your child at home! I can also bring this programming to a library in the South Hills near you!!

06/11/2023

I volunteered with this amazing organization this week providing programming for children with disabilities on the Montour Trail. Check out alwaysbsmiling.org 😃

05/15/2023

First in a series of Friday Sensory Storytimes at The Mt Lebanon Library! We read books about flowers, insects and birds, used therabands to imitate the movement of insects (can you swoop and swirl with a theraband🦋🕊️??) for proprioceptive input, sang songs and moved our bodies, and then planted seeds… touching and smelling the dirt, to enjoy later at home🌺! So excited to share OT and provide sensory related programming in the community!

03/24/2023

Brought some very fun and engaging sensory bins to 2-3 year old library story time today! Awesome to partner with Mount Lebanon Library to talk about the calming aspect of this sensory input. What do you put in your sensory bins??

12/22/2022

Fine motor skills are the ability to make small, precise movements with our fingers and wrists.

Here are some examples of when we use fine motor skills:
➡️ Writing
➡️ Coloring
➡️ Fasteners
➡️ Picking up small items (beads, coins)
➡️ Using tools such as utensils, scissors, rulers, glue sticks

Are your children or students showing any difficulty with these tasks?

12/19/2022

Are you a teacher/school director concerned with a child's challenges at school?

Pediatric Occupational Therapy specializes in evaluation and treatment of children and adolescents with fine motor, visual motor, self-care, coordination, and sensory processing challenges.

We identify developmental concerns in these areas affecting optimal functioning and create specific treatment plans according to each child’s individual needs.

As a teacher, if you observe these issues with a child in your classroom, call us to complete an occupational therapy screening or a consultation.

We are here to provide education and resources to help make your classroom a more sensory-friendly environment.

Sensory processing challenges can affect crucial fine/visual motor skills, which we also assess for optimal learning.

12/12/2022

Does your child experience any of these difficulties throughout the day?
A child with sensory processing challenges may experience difficulty organizing and modulating information through any of the senses below:

➡️ taste
➡️ touch
➡️ vision
➡️ smell
➡️ hearing
➡️ vestibular (where your body is in space)
➡️ proprioceptive (muscle/joint input)

If your child is having difficulty processing any of these senses, they may avoid or seek certain situations throughout their day.
Does your child seek or avoid anything in particular?

Let me know in the comments!

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12/08/2022

Are you a parent concerned with your child's challenges at home?

Pediatric Occupational Therapy specializes in evaluation and treatment of children and adolescents with:

➡️ fine motor

➡️ visual motor

➡️ self-care

➡️ coordination

➡️ sensory processing challenges.

We identify developmental concerns in these areas affecting optimal functioning and create specific treatment plans according to each child’s individual needs.