Sunny Horizons

12/30/2025

12/26/2025

🪩Sensory Strategies: New Year’s Edition🪩

🌟New Year's Eve is approaching fast! This is an exciting time as we close out 2025 and welcome 2026; however, for many families, ringing in the new year brings anxiety and stressors especially for the kiddos!

👏🏻Let's talk about it!
New Year's Eve is full of time spent with family and friends as well as bright lights and loud noises. For kiddos who have a harder time processing sensory information, this can look like anxiety when being around large groups of people as well dysregulation from disruption in routines... and don't even get us started on the fireworks!🤪

🧨How can we make New Year's Eve an enjoyable time for kiddos? Here are just a few ideas!
- Noise Cancelling Headphones
- Fidget Toys
- Weighted Blanket/Toy
- Visual Schedule
- Conversation

By understanding what might trigger feelings of anxiousness and dysregulation, we can set them up for success! Prepare ahead of time by discussing with your child the events of the holiday through conversation and even pictures or videos. You can also provide your child with tools to calm themselves like a visual schedule so they can anticipate what will happen next. Noise cancelling headphones, fidget toys, and weighted items are also great toys to improve experiences with fireworks and large crowds!

🌟Let's start 2026 off feeling ready and regulated!

12/25/2025

🌟🎄Merry Christmas and Happy New Year from Sunny Horizons!🎄🌟

12/12/2025

🌟Christmas at the Athens Clinic🌟

Time to get excited Athens crew! Next week (December 15th-17th), we will have hot cocoa and cookies during our therapy sessions… and we’ll be enjoying our sweet treats in Christmas pajamas!!!🎄☕️🍪

12/12/2025

🎄🌟Christmas Dress-Up Days for December 15th-17th🌟🎄

12/11/2025

🌟This week’s Therapy Toy Thursday is brought to you by Ms. Pacey Carson, DPT at the Albertville Clinic

Ms. Pacey says she loves the balance beam during PT sessions! The balance beam promotes dynamic balance, motor planning, bilateral lower extremity proprioception, and single leg stability!

All of these things are helping your kiddo to MOVE! 👏🏻

12/10/2025

❗️Christmas Break: Limited Schedule + Clinic Closures❗️

🌟Sunny Horizons clinics will be closed Thursday, December 18th. All therapy sessions will be cancelled for this date.

🌟Clinics will resume operations with a limited schedule December 22nd, 2025 - January 2, 2026. During this time, all recurring appointments will be paused, and any appointments will be on a first come first serve basis. Please be advised that if you do not call and request an appointment for December 22nd -January 2nd, your child will not be seen for their therapy session until after the Christmas break.

12/10/2025

🌟Tis the Season to be Jolly🎄

We’ve had a blast celebrating with you! From therapy sessions to Christmas parties, the fun hasn’t stopped!🥳

12/09/2025

❗️Important Notice❗️

🌟If your child is sick or showing any symptoms of being sick, please stay home! Symptoms include, but are not limited to: cough, congestion, sneezing, fever, vomit/diarrhea, or rash.

📞Please call your child’s clinic to reschedule their appointment in the event that they become sick.

👏🏻We thank you for helping us keep our patients and staff healthy!

12/09/2025

🌟It is merry and bright here at Sunny Horizons, and your favorite therapists have been celebrating BIG!🌟

🎄Check out some of our Christmas outfits!

12/08/2025

🌟Reminder: The Albertvile Clinic Christmas Party is TOMORROW!🌟

Refer to the flyer below for details, and don’t forget to sign up in the lobby!🎄

12/08/2025

Do you want to build a snowman?☃️

It’s not snowing yet, but the temps are dropping!❄️

Let’s get excited for winter with this free printable from Sunny Horizons!🌟

Some ways to use the printable:

✂️Scissor Skills: Have your child cut out the shapes (monitoring and providing help when needed), then glue them onto the snowman! You can even glue the snowman onto colorful construction paper for even more fun!

🖍️Coloring/Writing Skills: Your child can choose colors to decorate the snowman with crayons, markers, colored pencils, etc.

This printable offers communication skills such as identifying colors, parts of the snowman, and more! Talk through the craft as you and your child are working on it!

This craft provides your child with the opportunities to practice handwriting, scissor skills, manipulating items, and so much more!

To have access to the printable, just save the photo below to your device then print! And keep an eye out for more interactive crafts in the future!🤩