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What Sweden Just Admitted About Screens — And What Occupational Therapists Have Been Saying All Along
By Jagdish Prasad Yadav, Senior Occupational Therapist (HSE, since 2004) and Founder, Locus Therapy In 2011, Sweden went all-in on digital learning. Tablets entered nurseries. Keyboards replaced pencils. It was held up internationally as the model of a modern, future-ready classroom. By 2023, the same government was quietly reversing course — buying back paper textbooks…
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Money, Energy and Time: Why the Skills Children Build Today Matter Tomorrow
By Jagdish Prasad Yadav, Senior Occupational Therapist (HSE, since 2004) and Founder, Locus Therapy Parents of children with neurodivergent presentations often spend a great deal of time searching for answers: Why is homework taking so long? Why does my child struggle to get started? Why are transitions so difficult? Why do they understand what needs…
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We Are Running an Experiment on the Human Brain. And Nobody Asked for Consent.
The research on dementia is sobering enough on its own. But here is what concerns us deeply — and perhaps should concern all of us as parents, caregivers, and professionals working with children. We already know the brain has a remarkable self-cleaning system. During deep sleep, the glymphatic system flushes out toxic waste — including…
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Is AI Raising a Generation of “Autopilot Minds”? What Parents Should Know
Ask any question and get an instant answer. Skip the boring paragraph and get a summary instead. Let an app finish the homework, the drawing, even the thinking. This is the world children are growing up in now — and as occupational therapists, it should give us pause. Not because AI is bad. It isn’t.…
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Emerging Trends in Early Childhood Development: Reconsidering Toilet Training
Toilet training has traditionally been viewed as a developmental milestone most children begin to master between 18 and 30 months, with many settings expecting children to be out of nappies before starting school. In recent years, however, many preschool educators and early years professionals have observed a growing number of children arriving still in nappies…
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The WhatsApp arrest: the pandemic no one is calling a pandemic
The word “arrest” has meant different things at different points in history. People were once arrested for standing up during freedom struggles. Later, arrest became a tool of a disciplined society, used against people who broke its laws. More recently, a new kind of arrest has emerged: the “digital arrest” scam, where fraudsters convince people…