Happy New Year! Everyone here at Spark hopes you and your family had a wonderful New Year! With a new year comes new resolutions, changes, and growth! To kick off the new year we are excited to introduce our new Occupational Therapist: Faith Drescher! Faith currently has openings on Saturdays…
A functional family tree. Genograms are an organizational tool for family counseling and therapy practices (DeMaria, Weeks, & Twist, 2017). These genograms are essentially diagrams with which a therapist can notate important connections, details, and cultural implications. By understanding and effectively utilizing a genogram, a therapist is able view a…
Developmental Tasks in Children and Teens Robert J. Havighurst first introduced the idea of developmental tasks (Newman & Newman, 2018). A developmental task is a set of skills learned and mastered by a specific stage of development. He believed that the core of human development is the process where children…
Glow in the Dark & UV Sensory Room Toy and Game Ideas If you saw my last post on how to set up a sensory cave on a budget and what we love most in a sensory cave, you may be wondering what exactly to do with it! I sat…
