- May 23
- 3 min read
Summertime in Wisconsin! Beautiful weather, great lakes and vacations! Traveling across the country or heading up north to simply enjoy family time, we can do it all. I do love summer!
Now, I know that Memorial Day is not officially summertime, but I just can’t wait. Besides, this is the perfect time to check out our services! Families can get a jump start on making the coming school year more successful than the last one.
This has inspired a conversation about how much progress can be expected over the summer months for kids that we see--kids who often have no diagnosis but have subtle sensory challenges that cause unproductive behaviors.
This has made me reflect on the children who have started therapy just weeks ago.
The results have been life changing for these families. Like 5 year old Ainsley, who came to us with several concerns, one of which was a day time and night time continence issue.
When we first started working with Ainsley, she was wearing pull ups during the day and having accidents at night and during nap time. Her parents had tried all the traditional potty training methods without success.
When her mother came to us, she was worried that soon kids at school would notice that Ainsley was wearing pullups to school and that it would affect her self esteem and peer relationships. Mom noticed that staff at school were beginning to question if they were not taking the time to potty train her since she had no medical diagnosis to explain the incontinence.
After an evaluation by us, it turned out that Ainsley was struggling with Sensory Processing Disorder,
She was a very smart girl who was having incontinence because her sensory system was not working well.
We worked with Ainsley to integrate her vestibular and proprioceptive systems as well as to integrate her primitive reflexes which also improved her sensory processing. We did this through structured play activities targeting those systems. She loved coming to therapy to “play”. While her parents were in the gym with Ainsley during her sessions, we provided them with information about Sensory Processing and home exercises to help her progress more quickly.
The outcome when we finished our first 8 weeks together was amazing. She was no longer incontinent. She no longer needed to wear pull ups to school. School was going well.
I spoke with her mother recently and she told me that Ainsley continues to do well. She shared how glad she is to have found Moving Parts Therapy.
Knowing that there are many kids without a diagnosis that struggle with sensory processing, I am wondering…
Do you know a child that might need some help like Ainsley?
It is our mission to provide specially designed sensory integrative therapy to children with subtle sensory challenges since they may not be able to get services elsewhere due to not having a diagnosis. Their behaviors are often attributed only to lack of parental discipline rather than a sensory problem because there is no diagnosis to explain it.
We want to help more children find success like Ainsley has found.
If you do know a child that you think we’d be a good fit for, I’d love it if you could put us in contact either via email movingpartstherapy@gmail.com or over the phone if that’s better for them.
If you have an interest in learning more about what we may be able to do to help you, let me know when you’re free so we can arrange some time to talk.
Best wishes,
Mary
Moving Parts Therapy LLC
OT for Kids with subtle Sensory Challenges causing unproductive behavior
920-221-3098
- Mar 7
- 1 min read
Why does my child have difficulty learning new physical tasks? A sensory explanation.
Moving Parts Therapy helps kids with Sensory Processing Challenges, specializing in helping kids who have no medical diagnosis.
Does your child struggles with learning new tasks such as tying shoes or sporting activities?
Difficulties with novel tasks can be due to a sensory processing difficulty called Crossing the Midline.
Crossing the Midline refers to concepts such as the ability to easily cross eyes, arms and legs over the body’s vertical midline.
It also refers to how the brain interprets spatial concepts such as right/left and forward/backward.
When functioning well, it allows for good coordination for two handed activities and good overall body coordination needed for athletic activities.
For more information about sensory integration and reflex integration, check us out on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61557947101668
For more information about Moving Parts Therapy LLC, here is our website link:https://www.movingpartstherapy.com/
- Feb 28
- 1 min read
Why does my child do physically unsafe things so often? A sensory explanation.
Moving Parts Therapy helps kids with Sensory Processing Challenges, specializing in helping kids who have no medical diagnosis.
Does your child struggles with safety awareness?
Difficulties with safety can be due to lack of body awareness.
When we have good body awareness, the vestibular and proprioceptive systems are working well.
The vestibular system provides us with our sense of balance and head position.
The proprioceptive system provides us with a sense of how our body is positioned and a sense of how much pressure we are using.
When the systems are not working well, we are often impulsive as we crave the input we need to feel “right”. These movements can often be unsafe.
Therapy can help get the right input needed to improve the systems. Often the input needed is the ones that are avoided, so the systems do not improve on their own.
For more information about sensory integration and reflex integration, check us out on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61557947101668