Play is the Occupation of Children: Vision AND Occupational Therapy with Carol Spicer

Our guest for this month is Carol Spicer, an experienced pediatric occupational therapist with real life practical knowledge of how a diagnosis of a blindness or low vision can affect mealtime development! 

Carol has worked with many families of children with blindness and low vision in both educational and medical settings, guiding them through mealtime developmental challenges. While her strategies she shares on Feeling This Life this month are research-based and promising practices, she will be the first one to remind us that the “occupation of children is play” and mealtime should be a positive experience for all.  

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Children’s Colorado Hospital: https://www.childrenscolorado.org/just-ask-childrens/articles/sensory-processing-disorder/

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