Summer Survival Guide ( Practical strategies to support carry of academic and therapy skills during the summer months)
If you are a parent like me then you have probably dropped your child/children to school for the last time this semester and looking forward to the summer break(albeit with mixed feelings).To be honest these break is usually a difficult time than the other shorter ones during the cooler months mostly because of the transition from academic routine and structure to the two month hot unstructured summer. Having survived the long semester of daily school drop offs/pick ups, homework and exam agony; the challenges swiftly shift to home and personally to add on to the many caps I wear on a daily basis,the entertainment manager to my son during the summer break is the least I prefer. Is the summer slide a myth or fact? Is the loss or regression of skills(either academic or therapy skills) that the children have worked hard to acquire a certainty during the summer break? As an occupational therapist working with children with high/special needs who thrive on schedules,predictabili...