Bermuda Health-Abets
This is a podcast where we discuss everything from A to Z on healthy living. With a mission of empowering, informing and motivating Bermuda residents to live well. Our guests will be experts, community partners and residents with lived experience who focus on, work with or live with all aspects of health, including social determinants of health.
Bermuda Health-Abets
From Play to Progress: Understanding Early Childhood Development, their needs, helpful tips and community resources
Dear Listeners,
At some point in your life I know you've heard the statement "The Children Are Our Future". I've heard people say it and I've heard it in songs. If you think about this statement it is quite literally true. Children grow to be adult members of our community. Their childhood and development however, may have a huge impact on how they function in society and contribute as adults. It is to this very reason why early childhood development is crucial to the development of well rounded functional, contributing adults in society.
This episode of Bermuda Health-Abets, a podcast where we discuss everything from A to Z on healthy living, is dubbed From Play to Progress: Understanding Early Childhood Development, their needs, helpful tips and community resources. #empoweringinformingandmotivating Bermuda residents to live well.
Our guests this episode are Teresa Woolridge, Program Coordinator OT/PT, Occupational Therapist; Patrice Brown, Occupational Therapist; and Shenell Challernor, Occupational Therapist; all from the Department of Health. During this episode our guests talk about expected developmental milestones, indicators of developmental challenges, the impact of screen time on early childhood development, the importance of sleep, the importance of occupational therapy intervention for children with developmental challenges, the importance of "play" for child development, myth busting, tips for parents and available resources. Listener, as you tune into this episode remember that "the children are our future", what we do, the tools and resource we access can impact what that future looks like.
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