St.Jude Therapy Center

03/06/2026

SJTC PLAYGROUP SESSIONS ✨

Exploring rough vs. smooth, hard vs. soft. So much learning in one learning potato! 🥔🔍

Cutting and peeling potatoes is an excellent, low-pressure activity for children with clear benefits across sensory, motor, cognitive, emotional, and daily living skills. 🌈

Benefits:

🧩 Sensory Processing

- Touch: Feels rough skin, smooth flesh, firmness, moisture, and slight stickiness — great for desensitization, tactile tolerance, and calming over-responsive systems.
- Smell: Mild, familiar aroma; less overwhelming than strong foods, builds olfactory awareness.
- Sight: Color, shape, size, changes when peeled/cut; supports visual discrimination and focus.
- Proprioception: Firm pressure, gripping, pulling, and cutting gives deep muscle input — very regulating, reduces restlessness or anxiety.

✋ Fine & Gross Motor Skills

- Peeling: Grip strength, wrist rotation, hand-eye coordination, bilateral coordination (holding potato + moving peeler).
- Cutting: Controlled force, precision, finger isolation, stability; use plastic knives or safe cutters first.
- Hand strength: Builds dexterity needed for writing, dressing, zippers, buttons, and self-care.
- Arm/shoulder work: Heavy work input that calms and organizes the body.

🧠 Cognitive & Learning

- Sequencing: Step-by-step: wash → peel → cut → sort teaches order, routine, and following instructions.
- Cause & effect: “If I peel here, skin comes off; if I cut this way, shape changes”.
- Math basics: Count pieces, sort by size/shape, compare weight/quantity.
- Focus & attention: Repetitive, predictable, goal-oriented — easy to sustain attention, builds concentration span.
- Problem-solving: Adjusting grip, finding best way to peel/cut, adapting if potato is awkward.

Every peel and cut builds confidence and focus 🥔👐
Simple tasks, powerful impact. 😇


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25/05/2026

“In Pizza, we crust”

The children of St. Jude Therapy Center are enjoyed and had fun doing their own pizza ☺️ 🥰🥰




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15/05/2026

A Glimpse of child’s Speech and Language Development

Before the child has limited vocabulary and unable to speak multiple words, he also gets frustrated with the activity given especially when it comes to speaking. But with the help of verbal behavior approach of teaching the child can now do the following;

• Echoic “Baba”, “Eat”, “Daddy” – The purpose of this activity is strengthening early echoic skills, increase functional output and expand the learner’s expressive vocabulary. These foundational echoic responses support the later development of mands and tacts, particularly for socially significant and motivating words.
• Tacting (Labeling) – The purpose of Tacting is to build the expressive language it helps the child say what they see, hear, or experience, not just respond to questions or request. Tacting also increase awareness of the environment, the child learns to notice and identify things around them, which supports learning in daily life. It can also expand vocabulary by growing the child’s word bank (nouns, verbs, adjectives, etc.), which is needed to conversation and lastly it improve social interaction. Tacting allows the child to share experiences (e.g “Look! Dog!”), which is important for social conversation.




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07/05/2026

Enhancing Proprioceptive Skills

The purpose of this activity is to help the child develop important skills such as;

Improve Gross Motor Skills – The child uses their arms, legs, and body to reach and stay balanced. The resistance from the hanging object helps the child understand how their body moves and applies force.

Enhance Coordination – It trains the child to coordinate eyes, hands and body movements.
Increase attention and focus – The child needs to concentrate on the task (reaching, grabbing, or hitting the target).

Build strength and endurance – Helps strengthen muscles, especially in the arms and core.

Promote following instructions – The child learns to listen and complete a structured task.

Support sensory regulation – The activity can help calm or organize the child’s sensory system.





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29/04/2026

SJTC SUMMER TEAM BUILDING 2026 ☀️🌊

W/ the theme "Growing Stronger Together!" 💪

Held in Caramoan Island Camarines Sur on April 24-26, 2026 🌴

There is nothing better than connecting with your team outside of work. Thank you everyone for making this Team Building so memorable! Here’s to more success and more adventures together. 🤝✨

A big shoutout and thank you to the Owners of St. Jude Therapy Center for treating us to this beautiful beach experience. Thank you for always making us feel valued and appreciated. We had the best time ever! ❤️🌊

Thank you again for spoiling us! 🫶



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21/04/2026

21/04/2026

Autism Awareness and Acceptance Month 🌈🎉

St. Jude Therapy Center offers a 20% DISCOUNT for Applied Behavior Analysis Assessment. 📢📢

Promo runs until April 30, 2026 🌟

Our goal is to help individuals learn and apply skills that improve their independence and overall quality of life, making positive changes that matter in their daily lives.

St. Jude Therapy Center Offerings of ABA Therapy

•Skill Acquisition:
✅ Communication: Verbal, non-verbal, and alternative methods.

✅Social Skills: Understanding cues, interacting with peers, building relationships.

✅Daily Living Skills (ADLs): Self-care like grooming, dressing, and hygiene.

✅Motor Skills: Fine motor (writing) and gross motor (running) skills.
Academics & Focus: Improving attention, memory, and school readiness.

•Behavior Reduction:
✅Decreasing challenging behaviors such as aggression, tantrums, and self-injury.

✅Reducing behaviors that interfere with learning and daily functioning.

•Structured Learning:
✅Positive Reinforcement: Rewarding desired behaviors to increase their occurrence.

✅Data Collection: Therapists track progress to adjust plans.
Functional Behavior Assessment (FBA): Identifying the reason for a behavior.

✅Individualized Plans: Tailored to the person's specific needs, often for autism spectrum disorder.

How it Helps?
•Increases independence and success in daily life.
•Enhances quality of life for individuals and families.
•Prepares individuals for school, work, and community settings.
•Teach adaptive skills to cope with challenges.

So what are you waiting for? Don't miss out our 20% discount offer! ☺️

We’re here to help! Feel free to message us for inquiries! 📱📞
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Street Purok 4, Brgy. 7, Daet Camarines Norte

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