BOOKS, ARTICLES, AND PODCASTS FOR KIDS & FAMILIES

Balanced and Barefoot: How Unrestricted Outdoor Play Makes for Strong, Confident, and Capable Children by Angela J Hanscom (2019). Written by an Occupational Therapist who has taken OT therapy outside.  

Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder by Richard Louv

Amber Scherkenbach is the owner and operator of Momma Earth, LLC providing nature-based occupational therapy services & enrichment programs to children and their families from birth to 6 years. She has vast experience working with people across the lifespan and a skilled understanding of sensory processing skills, motor development, and nervous system regulation. She offers occupational therapy evaluations, direct occupational services and groups outside. Sessions focus on child-led, empowering activities and goal areas that the family has agreed are an area of priority. Sessions take place within the community, in nature and around the natural green spaces of a client's home. mommaearthmn.com 

Occupational Therapy (OT) for kids. Nature Kids Therapy provides therapy services to support caregivers, autistic and neurodivergent children, sensory processing, and/or motor coordination.

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