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Living with EDS and Chronic Pain: Everyday Life, Real Strategies, and Hope

Living with Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome (EDS) and chronic pain can make even everyday tasks feel overwhelming. In this article, we explore what EDS-related chronic pain can look like in real life and share neurodiversity-affirming, trauma-informed occupational therapy strategies to help kids, teens, and adults build safer, more sustainable routines.

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5 Life Hacks to Manage Life with POTS

Living with Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome (POTS) can feel overwhelming at first. POTS is a condition that affects the autonomic nervous system, causing your heart rate to rise significantly when moving from sitting or lying down to standing. Symptoms often include dizziness, fatigue, brain fog, and lightheadedness. The result? Everyday activities feel much more challenging,

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Embracing Echolalia as Gestalt Language Development

Echolalia is when a child repeats words or phrases spoken by others. It is common in neurodivergent children. But, what does it mean about their language development? How can we best support them? In this post, we’ll explore how echolalia serves children who are gestalt language processors and discuss ways in which parents can support

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The Power of Pause: Embracing Breaks in Pediatric Therapy

At TCS, we understand the importance of embracing breaks and incorporating them into the therapeutic journey of children. While consistent attendance is important, pausing or taking scheduled time off from weekly speech therapy or occupational therapy sessions offers a myriad of benefits. Recognizing this can help us promote overall well-being for your child and paves

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7 Ways to Support a Child’s Executive Functioning Skills.

Executive functioning is the new buzzword in the pediatric therapy world, but what exactly does that mean? Executive functions are the higher level skills located in the frontal lobe of the brain that allow us to organize ourselves, manage our emotions, control our impulses, problem solve, plan, initiate and many other skills. These are skills

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