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Helping people discover confidence, independence, and resilience through meaningful experiences in nature
🌲 Parent Coaching
🌿 Nature-Based Occupational Therapy
♿ Outdoor Accessibility
📍Northeast Arkansas
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09/20/2026

Occupational therapy is about so much more than the skills we can see. 🌿

It’s about confidence, independence, connection, resilience, participation, and helping children discover just how capable they can be.

Sometimes OT looks like handwriting or getting dressed. Sometimes it looks like climbing, playing, regulating, exploring, or trying something new. And sometimes the biggest victories come from the smallest everyday moments.

That’s one of the wonderful things about OT — meeting each child where they are and helping them keep moving forward, one meaningful step at a time. 🤍

Swipe ➡️ to see some of the wonderful things about OT and the many ways it can help children grow, participate, and build confidence.

Novel Heights | Elevating Your Story

09/18/2026

🪨 Weekend Adventure Challenge — Week 8: Rock Collector

This weekend’s adventure is all about slowing down, looking closely, and discovering the little things hiding right under our feet. 🌿

Head outside and see how many different rocks you can find. Look for differences in:

* color
* size
* shape
* texture
* weight
* patterns or sparkles

Then let your child sort, compare, stack, line up, or create something with their collection.

What looks like simple rock collecting can support visual attention, fine motor skills, sensory exploration, descriptive language, problem-solving, and early sorting and classification skills—all while giving kids a reason to explore their environment.

💚 There’s no “right” rock to find. The adventure is in noticing what makes each one different.

Bonus challenge: Choose your favorite rock and give it a name or make up a story about where it came from!

Sometimes the best treasures aren’t bought—they’re discovered. 🪨🌲

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09/17/2026

🌿 Creating a Sensory-Friendly Home

A sensory-friendly home doesn’t have to mean a complete makeover.

Often, the most helpful changes are the small ones that make daily routines feel calmer, more predictable, and easier to participate in.

Try things like:

* creating a cozy calm-down space
* reducing visual clutter
* using softer lighting
* making movement easy to access
* keeping sensory tools within reach
* building predictable routines

The goal isn’t to make a home perfectly quiet, organized, or controlled.

It’s to create an environment that helps your child feel more comfortable, regulated, and ready to engage.

💚 Support the environment. Support the child.

Every child is different, so notice what helps your child feel calm, organized, and successful.

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09/15/2026

🌿 Teacher Tuesday — Week 5: Spinal Galant Reflex

What if the movement you’re seeing isn’t about “sitting still” at all?

This week, we’re looking at the Spinal Galant reflex—an early developmental reflex involving touch along the side of the back—and how conversations around it may connect to things teachers sometimes notice during seated work.

A child might:

* shift frequently in their chair
* tug or adjust clothing
* lean, half-stand, or sit on one leg
* seem more restless as seated work continues
* respond strongly to touch or pressure around the back or waist

Those behaviors do not prove a retained Spinal Galant reflex. They can have many different explanations. But they can give us useful information about comfort, positioning, sensory experiences, and participation.

Sometimes the better question isn’t, “How do I get this child to stop moving?”

It’s:

“What might help this child feel comfortable enough to keep participating?”

Small supports like position changes, predictable movement, checking seating and contact points, and noticing what helps the child return to the task can make a meaningful difference.

💚 Comfort can affect attention.
💚 Movement may be helping the child keep going.
💚 The goal isn’t stillness. The goal is access to learning.

LOOK FOR PATTERNS — OBSERVE —

Save this one for your classroom team, and share it with an educator who loves looking beyond the behavior. 🌿

Novel Heights
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09/14/2026

Nature isn’t just beautiful—it’s biologically beneficial. 🌿

The benefits of spending time outdoors aren’t just something we feel—they’re supported by research.

Time in nature has been shown to help:

🧠 Improve attention and focus
💚 Reduce stress and anxiety
🏃 Support healthy motor development
💡 Boost creativity and problem-solving
🤝 Strengthen confidence and social skills
😴 Improve sleep, mood, and overall well-being

For children, every stick becomes a tool for imagination. Every rock becomes an opportunity to problem-solve. Every trail becomes a chance to build confidence, resilience, and independence.

At Novel Heights, we believe some of the best therapy doesn’t happen inside four walls—it happens where children are free to move, explore, discover, and connect with the world around them.

Because nature isn’t an extra.

It’s part of how healthy brains and bodies develop.

🌲 Nature. Growth. Independence.

09/11/2026

👣 WEEKEND ADVENTURE CHALLENGE — WEEK 7: BAREFOOT EXPLORATION 🌿

This weekend, we’re trading shoes for a little sensory adventure!

Find a safe place outside, kick off your shoes, and let your child’s feet experience the world beneath them.

🌱 Walk through soft grass
🏖️ Feel sand between your toes
🪨 Step carefully across smooth rocks
🟤 Squish through some mud
👣 Compare how each surface feels

Barefoot exploration gives children an opportunity to experience different textures, temperatures, and surfaces while using their whole body to adapt to the environment.

Along the way, they’re working on body awareness, balance, coordination, sensory exploration, and descriptive language—without it ever feeling like “work.”

🌿 Novel Heights OT Tip:
Don’t make the goal tolerating every texture.

If your child is hesitant, that’s okay. Let them explore at their own pace. Maybe they start with one toe, one step, or even touching the surface with their hand first.

Invite the experience. Don’t force it.

And before those shoes come off, take a quick look around for sharp objects, hot surfaces, insects, or anything else that could make barefoot exploration unsafe.

Then ask:

💬 Which surface feels the softest?
💬 Which feels warmest or coolest?
💬 Which one is your favorite?

Sometimes the best way to explore nature is to feel it beneath your feet. 👣🌿

Explore. Connect. Grow Together. 💚

09/10/2026

🌿 Little hands grow stronger through big adventures.

Fine motor skills don’t only develop at a table with crayons, scissors, or worksheets. Some of the best opportunities to strengthen little hands happen naturally through play, exploration, and everyday experiences outdoors.

Picking up tiny rocks. 🤏
Scooping dirt.
Pouring water. 💧
Stacking sticks.
Collecting leaves. 🍂
Digging in the mud.
Creating something from whatever they find.

These simple activities can help children build hand and finger strength, pincer grasp, hand-eye coordination, dexterity, problem-solving, and the foundational skills needed for writing and everyday self-care.

And to a child?

They’re not practicing fine motor skills.

They’re just playing. 💚

🌱 Novel Heights OT Tip: Before reaching for another worksheet, give those little hands something real to explore. Follow their curiosity, embrace a little mess, and let nature do some of the teaching.

Dig. Pinch. Pick. Pour. Build. Create.

Because play creates opportunities, and repetition builds skills. 🌿

09/09/2026

🌿 Before they walk, they crawl—and there’s a whole lot of development happening along the way.

Crawling may look simple, but it gives children opportunities to practice some pretty incredible skills. As opposite arms and legs work together, children are building coordination, strength, body awareness, visual skills, motor planning, and the foundations for more complex movement.

And the best part? It doesn’t have to feel like work. 💚

Create opportunities for crawling through everyday play:

🌱 Place a favorite toy just out of reach
🌱 Make tunnels with blankets or furniture
🌱 Build simple pillow obstacle courses
🌱 Roll a ball back and forth
🌱 Take play outside and explore different safe surfaces

Every child develops differently, and crawling is only one piece of a much bigger developmental picture. Rather than focusing on perfection, focus on giving your child plenty of opportunities to move, explore, play, and discover.

🌿 Novel Heights OT Tip:
Don’t make it another exercise. Build it into play.

Because little movements today can help build the skills children use tomorrow. 💚

Play creates opportunities. Repetition builds skills.

09/08/2026

🍎 TEACHER TUESDAY | WEEK 4: STNR

Have you ever had a student who seems to be constantly changing position during desk work?

Maybe they…

🪑 Lean, slump, kneel, or tuck a leg underneath
✏️ Get very close to the paper while writing
👀 Shift their whole body when looking between the board and desk
🌿 Need frequent movement or position changes
⏱️ Seem to tire during longer seated activities
🤲 Work harder than expected to maintain posture while using their hands

This week, we’re exploring the Symmetrical Tonic Neck Reflex (STNR)—an early developmental reflex that links head position with coordinated changes in the arms and legs.

In infancy, STNR is a normal part of development. As voluntary movement and postural control mature, the head, arms, and legs become increasingly able to move independently.

So why talk about STNR in the classroom?

Because sitting at a desk isn’t actually a passive activity.

A student may be asked to:

LOOK UP → LOOK DOWN → STABILIZE → WRITE → LISTEN → REPEAT

…while maintaining enough body stability to stay available for learning.

That takes energy.

And for some children, movement may actually be part of the strategy they use to keep participating.

💚 Movement doesn’t automatically mean inattention.
💚 A different working position doesn’t automatically mean poor behavior.
💚 Sitting perfectly still is not the goal.

The goal is participation.

Simple supports like:

🌿 stable foot support
🌿 comfortable work height
🌿 movement opportunities
🌿 flexible working positions
🌿 reduced unnecessary postural demands

may make classroom participation more accessible for many students.

And an important reminder: these observations can have many different causes. Posture, fidgeting, fatigue, attention, or coordination differences do not confirm a retained STNR.

Teachers don’t need to determine the cause to make a difference.

Notice what seems hard.
Notice when it happens.
Notice what helps.

✨ SUPPORT → STABILIZE → PARTICIPATE → LEARN

Swipe through ➡️ for Week 4 of our Teacher Tuesday Reflex Series.

Next week → Spinal Galant

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Fayetteville, AR
72701–72704

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http://novelheightsar.com/

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