Did you know that your child’s body awareness can be increased by encouraging better drawing skills? Often times a young child will draw a picture of themselves ...
“When School Based PT Goes Too Far”
Please see below this great article from ADVANCE magazine: School-Based Therapy According to federal IDEA guidelines, physical therapy in school is considered ...
Astronaut Training Program
What is the Astronaut Training program and why do we do it here at Littlefield? We will let the Astronaut Training protocol book do the talking: “Although no ...
Teaching Children to Jump with advice from Littlefield
Jumping is a motor milestone that requires strength, balance, coordination, body awareness and motor planning. Jumping typically occurs in a step-wise manner, w ...
Equipment Clinic at Littlefield
A little bit about Littlefield’s Equipment Clinic... Littlefield is running a monthly equipment clinic where several of our physical therapists work with local ...
Visual Motor Strengthening at Littlefield
Did you know that Occupational Therapists can do Vision Therapy with your child? Here at Littlefield we have several therapists that have undergone additional t ...
Swimming Safely During Your Summer
Since June is National Safety Month, here at Littlefield we wanted to share some extra helpful information regarding your child's safety around water. Summertim ...
Movement Matters with Carriers
We know that you parents are busy out there! We have some great strategies for you parents to get your baby moving without changing your daily routines. A great ...
Stroke Awareness
A stroke occurs when a clot blocks blood flow to an area of the brain, resulting in death of brain cells and damage to the brain. This can result in a variety o ...
What is Hippotherapy?
The American Hippotherapy Association defines hippotherapy as the use of equine movement to engage the sensorimotor and neuromotor systems to create functional ...
Help to Bully Proof Your Kids!
Bully-Proofing Guidelines, excerpt taken from John F. Taylor, Ph.D Many kids go through a time in life where they find themselves being bullied. What a ...
April Curriculum
Go, Go, Go Into April This month’s curriculum is all about transportation! We see all types of transportation when we leave our houses. Littlefield loves to us ...
Pre-Writing Shapes
What makes pre-writing shapes so important? Pre-writing shapes are the building blocks of learning to write, read and do math. A child who has mastered their pr ...
Positive Parenting and Mentoring
If you want your children to improve, let them overhear the nice things you say about them to others.” -Haim G. Ginott Haim G. Ginott was a clinical psy ...