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Homework Help For Students, Teachers, and Parents

 The Trouble With Homework The term often causes dread among students and parents alike, but as students go back to school, there’s no need for them to also return to previous struggles they may have had with homework. Occupational therapists can help students, teachers, and parents look at all aspects of the homework process and…
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Measure Your Cognitive Performance to Optimize Brain Health

As specialists in executive functioning, True Abilities is now offering assessments that measure cognitive skills over time. Through our partnership with CBS Health, these advanced assessments specifically for cognition are not typically offered by clinics, schools and other organizations. They have been validated by decades of scientific research and are proven to measure the most…
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Develop Your Child’s Physical Activity to Develop their Mind.

Cognitive coordination is related to physical coordination. Pay attention to your child’s physical activity, in order to develop their self-regulation and other cognitive skills. Simply put, in order to develop the mind, you must develop the body. This means that each day, exercise, play or any physical movement is needed multiple times a day. No…
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Occupational Therapy Services SOMSD Families

To the wonderful Parents in the South Orange/Maplewood school district: After 12 years of providing Occupational Therapy services to kids in the South Orange/Maplewood School District, I am now at my private OT practice for children, True Abilities, full time. Thank you so much for the outpouring of support and kind words. I miss you…
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10 Ways OTs Help with Successful Transitions

Occupational Therapy can help with successful transitions in school and at home. Experienced Pediatric Occupational Therapists provide support to families and children during times of transition. The current environment with COVID19, with kids learning at home or in hybrid environments has created a major life changes, and going back to school (in whatever climate) is…
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