Episode 61: The Connection Between Nature and Children's Health & Wellbeing

Rebecca Kadowaki is an OT who has developed an evidence-based toolkit connecting contact with nature and executive functioning in pediatrics as part of the work she's doing in the post-professional OTD program in which she is enrolled at Indiana Univ-Purdue University at Indianapolis (IUPUI). 

Becca has developed a resource called "Nature + Occupational Therapy" which is a toolkit for executive function in children, which she has generously shared as a free, open-market resource. On this episode, Becca talks about her path into the field of OT, her interest in the link between development, health and wellbeing and nature, research on how and why nature benefits children's executive function, and ideas for incorporating contact with nature into practice and into daily life.

Resources & Recommendations from this Episode:

• Balanced and Barefoot - a blog and a book by the same name, written by an OT
• Nature-bound Bug Vacuum and Habitat Kit 
• Nature + Occupational Therapy - a resource created by Becca

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