Resources for Families and Providers

Occupational Therapy Tip Sheets

• Colouring
• Encouraging Independence for Dressing
• Fastening (buttons, zippers)
• Hand and Upper Extremity Strengthening
• Hand Dominance
• Hand Tremors
• Heavy Work
• Independence for Self-Care Tasks
• Letter Reversals
• Pencil Grasp
• Play Skills
• Posture
• Pre-Printing
• Printing
• Scissor Skills
• Sensory Processing
• Sensory Toe Walking
• Shoelace Tying
• Technology
• Toilet Training Your Child with Special Needs
• Utensils

Web Links

• Learning Without Tears: information and resources for parents, teachers, therapists, and students for using the Handwriting Without Tears curriculum.
   

Concerns with balance and coordination skills

• Active for Life
• Jumpstart Play Resources
• GoNoodle Sensory and Motor Skills
• Watch Cosmic Kids!
• The Inspired Treehouse
• Public Health Sudbury & Districts: Physical Activity

Concerns with in-toeing

• What to Know About In-Toeing
• What to Know about W Sitting
• CHEO: Intoeing Resources and Support

Concerns with flat feet

• What to Know About Flat Feet
• What to Know About Supportive Shoes
• Caring for Kids: Footwear for children

Concerns with torticollis

• What to Know About Torticollis

Concerns with baby flat head

• What to Know About Baby Flathead
• Caring for Kids: Preventing flat heads in babies who sleep on their backs
• SickKids: Tummy time activities
• Active for Life: Baby tummy time

Concerns with toe walking

• What to Know About Toe Walking

Concerns with baby's development

• Caring for Kids: Your child's development
• Public Health Sudbury & Districts: Growth and development for infants
• What to Know about Floor Time

Other resources

• iCan Shine
  Information and resources regarding recreational activities for children with disabilities.
   
• Pedalheads
  Information and resources regarding recreational activities for children with disabilities

Tip Sheets

• Help with Articulation
• Help with a Stutter (Fluency)
• Preschool Speech and Language

Web Links

• The Hanen Centre
  Programs and resources for parents targeting the development of language and literacy, language delays, the autism spectrum disorder and Asperger’s syndrome.
   
• First Words Project
  Looks at early communication.
   
• Spreading the Word
  Evidence-based parent-directed program designed to encourage parents to harness the power of their words to enrich their young children’s language environments, build their brains, and shape their futures.
   
• Being the Bridge - Building Language While You Wait
  Preschool speech and language programs; Ontario online courses for parents.
   
• The Power of Play
  Creating opportunities for language development. For parents of preschoolers - ages 2.5 to 4.
   
• Best Beginnings
  A parent e-Guide for Promoting the Social and Emotional Health of Children.
   
• Speech-Language and Audiology Canada
  Offers information sheets/pamphlets on the development of speech and language as well as, consumer information.
   

• Feeding Food Play

• Canchild:
  research and educational centre that provides evidence-based information to improve the lives of children and youth with disabilities and their families.
   
• About Kids Health
  Trusted answers from The Hospital for Sick Children.
   
• Pathways.org
  Resources and tools for parents and healthcare providers.
   
• Ability Online
  Free, monitored and supportive online community that welcomes kids, teens & young adults of all abilities.
   
• Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario (CHEO)
  Resources and information for families.
   
• Empowered Kids Ontario (EKO)
  Site for support to Children's Treatment Centres in Ontario.
   
• S.W.A.M. - Swimming With a Mission - Sudbury
  A Sudbury local non-profit organization promoting water safety and swimming instruction to children with disabilities.
   
• Learning Disability Association
  Site for Sudbury's chapter of the Learning Disability Association