Jacoline Rudman Arbeidsterapie / Occupational Therapy

21/08/2025

REGULATION😌🌿

If we can, from a young age, make space for all the big emotions our kids are feeling and we can model to them how to regulate themselves by co-regulating with them - even before they enter formal schooling - we will have kids that can thrive in school.

Co-regulating (calming) with them will teach them what safety looks like and it will give them the confidence to ask for what they need and advocate for themselves.

18/08/2025

Playing in our pretend world - catching clams from our boat and getting them safely to their rock🛥️🦪

12/08/2025

11/08/2025

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07/08/2025

EMPOWERING EDUCATORS THROUGH TRAINING! 👩‍🏫✨

This term, our passionate educators returned from a well-deserved break—energized and ready to learn new skills that directly benefit the children they support.

A few weeks ago we had our first training for the term - the focus:

🖍️Visual Perceptual Skills🧩
Using puzzles in fun and practical ways to strengthen essential visual perceptual abilities that form the foundation for academic success.

As always, we believe in learning through play—just like the kids do! 🎉

Other key topics we covered in previous sessions:

✅ Understanding Regulation
Exploring how our own emotional regulation as educators influences the learning environment.

✅ Executive Functioning
Sharpening our own planning and organizational skills to model and support these skills in learners.

✅ Activity Analysis
Breaking down everyday classroom activities to better support diverse learning needs.

Our training equips educators not just with knowledge—but with hands-on strategies they can implement right away. Because when teachers grow, students thrive.

📚💡

07/08/2025

RAINY DAYS🌧️☔

🤸They don't go outside at school in the cold, wet weather
🤾Their bodies crave activity and being busy
🏃No climbing or running all day

Keep this in mind when they get extra moany, starts playing rough, or begins throwing toys.

Create spaces inside to help them get their bodies what they need.

👀 Try this: throwing games, rough-and-tumble play, heavy muscle work like pushing or pulling, and cozy spaces to help them reset.

Remember: you're their calm in the storm. 🌈

✅ Manage your expectations – meet them where they are at.
✅ Give grace – To them, and yourself.
✅ Pause to play and connect – A few minutes of presence can set the tone for the evening.

✨ Regulation starts with connection. You’ve got this. 💛

14/03/2025

We had our first session of educator training today!

It was fun and we learnt a lot. Looking forward to the sessions to come🤩

13/03/2025

Preparing for our educator training tomorrow.

Super excited 😁

21/02/2025

Pictures speak a thousand words.

Buckets full of fun in our therapy room this week:
✅ Trapeze swing
✅ Wedge blocks
✅ Foam trigger spray
✅ One very eager beaver

04/02/2025

Ready for a new month at Rudman OT's. The opportunities to regulate, play and learn are endless.