Four Ways to Maximize Your NBCOT Exam Prep
Wouldn’t it be great if all you needed to land your first job as a Registered Occupational Therapist (OTR®) or Certified Occupational Therapy Assistant (COTA®) were your degree, resume, and…
How Extended School Year (ESY) Services Benefit Kids and You
As I write these words, we’ve just “sprung forward” into Daylight Saving Time. I love the longer daylight hours because they fill me with more energy. Not to mention, I…
Developing New Opportunities for Students with Autism at Work
Find out How PTS Helps Students with Autism Find Jobs After High School For more than 20 years, Pediatric Therapeutic Services (PTS) has been supporting students with special needs. Hundreds…
Three Keys for Success in Your School-Based Occupational Therapy Job
Think Through These Issues When Looking for Pediatric OT Positions in Schools Are you looking for a school-based occupational therapy (OT) job? It’s the right time! OT jobs should increase…
Eight Great Printable Classroom-Based OT Activity Lists
Need Fun, Engaging OT Activities for Your Students? Count on PTS Are you a school-based occupational therapist looking for classroom activities to support and strengthen your young clients’ skills? When…
Help More Students at Once Using These Articulation Exercises and Games
Help More Students at Once Using These Articulation Exercises and Games It’s impossible to know how many of Pinterest’s 265 million monthly users are school-based speech-language pathologists (SLPs). But it’s…
27 (At Least!) Summer OT Activities for Kids’ Continued Growth
Try These Fun Ways to Keep Strengthening Essential Skills When School’s Out Summer’s almost here… so students will soon be home complaining of boredom and looking for things to do.…
Seamless IEPs Focus on Students’ Goals, Not OT Goals
Serve Students Best by Keeping School-Based OT Goals in Perspective Eighteen years ago, I started my career in school-based Occupational Therapy (OT) believing my Certified Occupational Therapy Assistants (COTAs) and…
How to Assemble a Top-Rate Team of School-Based Therapists
Four Keys to Getting and Keeping the Best Clinicians for Your Program How is staffing a school-based therapy program like making the perfect vegetable soup? It takes just enough of…
Help Your Students Hit Handwriting Goals Without Occupational Therapy
Try This More Efficient Way to Help Kids Get Their Handwriting on Track When I provided Occupational Therapy in public schools, I often found myself frustrated. Many IEP teams would…