Reach Therapy

08/21/2023

Reach Team participating in the Surfing Madonna Oceans Project’s surfing camp this past Saturday. 🏄‍♀️ 🏄 ☀️ 🌊

02/14/2023

Do you have difficulties having your child try new foods?🍊🥦🍝

Here are a few tips and tricks to expand your child’s dietary food intake!

-Cut up foods into smaller pieces 🍽

-Present your child one new piece of food on a plate in front of them.

-First Step: Model touching the piece of food to your lips👄 . Then have the child imitate this behavior. (Tip: Pretending to kiss the food can make it more fun for your child!)

-Once the child successfully imitates this step, REINFORCE by giving lots of social praise (ie. great job!!!!). Repeat this first step a couple more times until your child has become comfortable independently touching the new food to their lips

-Second Step: Model licking the food and have your child copy **Remember to give praise (ie. Great job licking apple!) Do this step a couple more times.

-Third step: Demonstrate placing food in your mouth, then chewing, and spitting out. Repeat the imitation procedure and reinforce. This will slowly transition to swallowing.

-Last step: Tell your child to “take a bite” and model placing food in mouth, chewing, and swallowing. (Tip: Show your child your empty mouth after consumption. This will teach them the end result of eating new foods)

-Remember to make it fun!! 😀

08/03/2022

We are excited for Saturday!

Surfing Madonna Oceans Project is honored to have the support of Reach Therapy for this week's surf camp! www.goreachtherapy.com
Camp is full at this time, but we would love to see you there to check out all the fun! big thanks to Reach Therapy 💕

07/22/2022

🎥 🍿 Sensory-Friendly Movies🍿 🎥

Participating AMC’s provide these family-friendly viewings in a sensory-friendly environment on the 2nd and 4th Saturday of every month!
In San Diego the locations are: Poway, Mission Valley, and Palm Promenade. Check it out below:

For guests and families living with autism or other special needs.

07/08/2022

⏱ ⏲ Does your child struggle with waiting??? ⏰

Here are some helpful ABA tips:

1. Practice waiting together, frequently, for items your child wants, starting with small amounts of time (5-10 seconds) and increase over time.

2. Use a visual timer ⏲ (there are so many great apps for this, and kids love seeing the picture reveal after they’ve waited- it’s a great added reinforcer)

3. Practice counting together while waiting

4. When your child is able to wait patiently, give them lots of praise and REINFORCE this important skill!

And remember practice, practice, practice!

By practicing waiting when your child is calm, they are much more likely to be able to wait appropriately and earn that reinforcement, and overall strengthen this skill for the more difficult moments when waiting is not an option! 🙂

04/27/2022

Happy Wednesay!!! Here's today's "Tips and Tricks for Parents at Home!"

**Teach your child to communicate for things they want!**

((When your child struggles to tell you what they want, they can quickly become frustrated and use protests or tantrums to get their needs met. As parents, we often struggle to figure out what our children want when they are escalated in a tantrum. ))

You can teach your child to ask for things:

—Putting toys away at home, and having them just out of reach, in clear plastic bins (they can see the toys, you can see which toys they may be reaching for/ indicating that they want it), and you will be able to give them the words to ask for the items they want, before giving them the toys.
—Once your child indicates (by pointing at the item, or saying the name of the item- whatever is appropriate for them), give them the toy(s) immediately.

***This teaches your child that when they use words, or appropriate gestures like pointing, they can get what they want- without tanntruming or protesting! Their words have power!***

Using this tip, it will Increase Opportunities for your child to ASK for items, and allow you to help teach your child to ask.

You can use this tip for anything your child likes, including favorite snacks, toys, materials for activities they enjoy, and more!

04/20/2022

Special Needs Surf Camp?!🏄‍♀️ 🌊

Reach Therapy will be sponsoring this event on August 6th in Carlsbad. We can’t wait! Check out the organization below for details. 🙂

Surf Camp for Special Needs Kids is a big part of Surfing Madonna's Oceans Project Arts Programming Challenge Events