by Melissa Collier | Oct 13, 2022 | For Educators, For Parents/Caregivers
How to combat the mental health crisis among teens is a topic the occupational therapists and mental health professionals at Zier Institute and Amy Zier + Associates have discussed for years. Fast forward to COVID-19 and “post” pandemic lives, there is a...
by Melissa Collier | Jan 24, 2021 | For Parents/Caregivers, For Educators
Help for students struggling in school typically begins with advice about creating distraction-free study spaces, organization, and tutoring for the subjects in which your child is falling behind. We approach academic success for teens, tweens, and elementary-aged...
by Melissa Collier | Jul 22, 2020 | For Educators, For Parents/Caregivers
The importance of sleep for kids and teens is a widely researched topic. Good sleep habits promote healthy development during the formative and adolescent years. Sleep programs find that sleeping like a well-slumbered baby is nice but sleeping like a fourteen-year-old...
by Melissa Collier | Jul 1, 2020 | For Educators, For Parents/Caregivers, Uncategorized
These anti-racism resources for kids and families have been collected by our occupational therapists in Omaha and Chicago over the past six weeks. Just as we shared resources about talking to kids about COVID, we‘re sharing resources/action-steps for kids in order to...
by Melissa Collier | Jun 18, 2020 | For Parents/Caregivers, For Educators
Back to school!?! Why would we mention this when we’ve just NOW begun to enjoy a little summer fun? Whether we want to think about it or not, which is a perfectly understandable reaction at this juncture, back to school will – or possibly won’t – be here...
by Melissa Collier | May 15, 2020 | DIR/Floortime, For Educators, For Parents/Caregivers, Having Fun/Engaging, Science/Research
Online occupational therapy may have once seemed like a futuristic concept but in the age of Covid-19, the future is now. Fortunately, technology and the research about the effectiveness of telehealth and occupational teletherapy were ready for this moment. As with...