Attention shifts from moment to moment. When you raise your awareness of when you are focused and why your brain drifts, you can better monitor your attention cycle. 

The best news about visual processing development is that children can strengthen these skills through play. Even without a formal deficit, all of our children can benefit from playing games that strengthen our visual processing skills.

Visual processing skills are essential cognitive abilities that help children interpret the world around them. These skills form the backbone of learning, influencing tasks from reading and writing to solving math problems and engaging in physical activities.

Here are a few deep-pressure activities for calming.

When we strengthen the brain through rhythm and music, children build the skills they need to succeed in school, relationships, and daily life.

12 Developmental Activities for Young Children and their Caregivers

This article is about how movements supports cognition and brain architecture.

This article by Steven Feifer presents the importance of social-emotional skills in childhood.

Cognitive-motor and musical resources for parents and teachers.

Reading requires a complex interplay between cognitive, sensory, and motor processes, here are 10 ways sensory-motor skills support reading.

7 Engaging Activities for Parents to Foster Children's Self-Regulation Skills with Cognitivities

Lynne Kenney, PsyD & Alice Li, BS Boston College Recently an occupational therapist who attended our executive function workshop in...

Incorporate Music, Art, and Movement for Self-Regulation with Cognitivities.

This post is about using music for social cohesion and self-regulation.

Over the past 20 years, we have developed engaging cognitive-motor & executive function activities to help clinicians and educators who...

Incorporating music, rhythm, and motor movement to strengthen executive function in children is an effective way to “Power-Up” children’s...

Physical Education promotes cognitive development through stimulation of the neural pathways necessary for socialization and learning.

Executive Function Skills contribute to phonological processing, reading fluency, and reading comprehension. Neurobiological and...

The role of executive function skills in reading and math is becoming better known in education. Understood in the clinical treatment of...

Our esteemed colleagues Kyle Bragg and Megaera Regan are at Shape America Seattle this week. They have been tweeting about teaching...