Looking at Digital Eye Strain During Children’s Eye Health and Safety Month
Did your children get digital eye strain staring at computers too much during the COVID 2020/21 school “break?” What’s going to happen as they return to school this month and spend more time on digital devices? Ophthalmologists are expecting a school year filled with...
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Protecting Your Kids from UV Rays
Sun, sun, sun!!! Summer is here. Beaches. Pools. Backyard Bar-b-Ques. Has it been two years since we let the sun shine down upon us? Now we can go back out. That is a good thing. And a bad thing, especially for our kids when it comes to UV safety awareness. You know,...
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Childhood Aphasia — Time to Get the Word Out
Aphasia — this is THE perfect example of just because you never heard of it, doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist. You don’t know what Aphasia is, do you? You aren’t alone. While 2 million people in the United States have Aphasia, 84.5% of Americans state that they’ve never...
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COVID’s Effect on Children’s Mental Health
Did you fool yourself into thinking that COVID-19 was not a “kid’s disease?” Children will be fine. They won't get sick. Sadly, the “side effects” of the pandemic are what’s taking a toll on our kids. There is no way to sugarcoat this. Covid-19 events of the last...
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Occupational Therapy For Kids — Yes It Is a Thing
Please don’t let the phrase “occupational therapy” (OT) make you believe it has nothing to do with kids. After all, kids don’t have “occupations,” right? But, in clinical terms, many occupational therapists define “occupations” as “activities” that children regularly...
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