Amy Guttman, Author at HandsOn Approaches

Child Anxiety: Is it All in the Mind… or All in the Body?

Watching your child struggle with anxiety is a frustrating and painful experience for a parent. The challenge is multiplied a hundredfold when you have no idea where the anxiety is coming from… or how to address it. This post goes through the three different causes of child anxiety, tips on identifying which cause is at play, and the go-to professional for each type.

S.M.A.R.T. Program

S.M.A.R.T. is a multi-sensory approach to learning based on brain research, enabling you to help children develop physiological and neurological readiness skills essential to classroom success.

Learning to Move, Moving to Learn

A fundamental understanding of how neuro-motor immaturity contributes to educational and behavioral issues – and how to practically screen for and treat it in the school-based setting.

Play the Floortime Way

floortime continuing education stanley greenspan

How to practically further social-emotional development and increase learning potential using Dr. Stanley Greenspan’s Floortime Method.

Making Sense of Sensory© (Florida)

A comprehensive approach to sensory processing issues as the root of many academic, behavioral and emotional difficulties – and its practical application in designing therapy programs.

Why You Should Be Glad When Your Kid Throws a Tantrum (Maybe): Emotional Regulation in Children

A toddler who throws a tantrum isn’t “out of control.” They’re very much in control in this critical step of developing emotional regulation in children. Here’s why.

School-Based Therapy Using Collaboration and Technology

Strategies and technology resources to push in to the classroom and collaborate with the student’s whole educational support system.

Become fully equipped to effectively treat children with unintegrated reflexes through focused, expert application of evidence-based protocols, tools and methods from multiple reflex integration programs.