Healthy eating is a component of a healthy lifestyle at any age. National Nutrition Month takes place every March and provides us the opportunity to check in on our nutrition and food choices.

Typically bleeding disorders involve blood clotting. During the process of coagulation (blood clotting), many factors come into play. Some individuals have an imbalance in their clotting process.

For those who have Down Syndrome, there are significant things to focus on through early childhood development. Here are some ways you can focus depending on your child’s age or stage of life.

March is Epilepsy Awareness Month, a time to educate people about the challenges faced by those with epilepsy and to raise awareness of the impact of this neurological disorder on individuals and their families.

What do Jim Carrey, Michael Phelps, Dan Ackroyd, Temple Grandin, and Orville Wright have in common? They are all very well-known and successful individuals. But it is interesting to note that each one of these people also has a developmental disability.

Developmental milestones are things we consider to be important or meaningful learned behaviors in early childhood. We are familiar with the most major developments, for instance, our first words, first steps, first smile.

Kids will engage in interactive Valentine’s Day cards where they will complete a series of challenges related to occupational and speech therapy while collecting their heart cards. This activity can be done in pairs or individually, depending on the setting.

Colorful Speech" is a fun and interactive activity that aims to enhance children's speech and language development.

What foods are good for your teeth and what foods are bad for your teeth?

Kids can play this visual activity to understand how to choose foods that will be good for their teeth and dental hygiene.

Kids can play, dance, and move after making this easy and fun ribbon ring craft (bonus: no mess!)

You’ll only need a few household supplies.

Sometimes it can be a challenge to help children understand the importance of flossing. The process of flossing can also be difficult for children to see when demonstrating at home.

Create this festive garland with just a few supplies but lots of developmental benefits!

Get in the Valentine’s Day spirit with this fun bingo game!

Use your leftover candy hearts to develop visual perceptual skills and fine motor skills. This activity uses visual perceptual skills to sort by color and identification of colors. Practice fine motor development using pincer grasp to pick up hearts and place into the correct spot.

This activity focuses on developing gross motor skills, motor planning, following directions, as well as auditory processing while listening to when the music starts/stops.

Scissor skill development to address distal dexterity, hand strength, eye-hand coordination, rhythmic timing of coordinated cutting, bilateral integration, tactile exploration, sequencing, and attention to task.

Facilitation of sequencing, following directions, material management, cutting, and drawing to create a Puurrfect Friend! Build on this fun craft with some imaginative play and fun animal sounds or gross motor movements when you pretend to be cats, too!

Promotion of visual scanning skills and visual- motor integration for color identification and sorting. Add language for description of color, size and quantity while you play!

The WH Questions Game requires a lot of language skills. A child must understand the question word, understand the grammar of the question, and make sense of the information and the social context.

This craft works on the development of fine motor and visual motor skills, following directions, and attention to detail. It is a fun opportunity to play and talk about dental hygiene at home.