This piece argues that movement, like singing, is a behaviour humans evolved to need, and that contemporary culture has stripped both from everyday life, replacing intrinsic joy with performance-based participation across nearly every entry point to movement, including sport, dance, and therapeutic practice. Drawing on evolutionary biology, self-determination theory, disability and weight stigma research, and [...]
Fit In or F@#$ Off! Social Skills, Civic Life, and the Children We’re Leaving Behind By Amie Milligan, Occupational Therapist | PassionpilOT Abstract This piece argues that the public normalisation of contempt for difference — visible everywhere from political rhetoric to a stranger’s t-shirt — is not separate from the work of supporting neurodivergent children […]
Despite growing evidence that teacher emotional regulation significantly influences student achievement, engagement, and wellbeing, allied health recommendations in schools remain largely focused on individual children, with limited attention to the classroom system in which they learn. Drawing on educational psychology, developmental science, and school consultation research, this paper argues for a reframing of teacher self-regulation [...]
