
Ideas at Play: Pediatric Therapy Podcast
Hosted by Lacy and Michele · Michele Alaniz & Lacy Wright
5.0from 47 ratings
- 87
- Episodes
- 4
- Transcribed
- 47
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2025
- First episode
About Ideas at Play: Pediatric Therapy Podcast
Welcome to Ideas at Play, the go-to podcast for busy pediatric occupational therapy professionals! Whether you're in school-based settings, early intervention, or outpatient practice, we bring you evidence-based strategies, practical tips, and engaging discussions to support your OT practice with children, teens, and young adults. Each episode features: A deep dive into recent pediatric OT research and how to apply it. "Nailed It or Failed It," where we share what’s working—and what isn’t—in our pediatric OT practice. Real-world examples and listener questions about all things pediatric occupational therapy. Shout outs to People, Places, and Products that fill our occupational therapy hearts Join the hosts, Michele Alaniz, OTD, OTR/L, BCP and Lacy Wright, OTD, OTR/L, BCP, as we explore innovative OT ideas, share professional insights, and help you stay up-to-date with the latest trends in pediatric occupational therapy. Subscribe now and unlock actionable strategies to help the children you serve thrive! Stay informed, stay curious, and stay playful! ✏️ Sign up for our newsletter https://forms.gle/2aceiDDHBq6LR5TV6. (https://forms.gle/Zu47siire24D1Dir8) 📧 Email us a question or comment at IdeasAtPlayPodcast@gmail.com (mailto:IdeasAtPlayPodcast@gmail.com) 👉 Find us on Instagram @ideas.at.play Keywords: occupational therapy, OT, pediatric occupational therapy, evidence based practice, peds OT
- Publisher
- Michele Alaniz & Lacy Wright
- Category
- business · education · health & fitness
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 8 Feb 2025
- Latest episode
- 7 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
4 of 87 episodes have a transcript.

7 Oct 2026
Ep. 86 Play as an Occupation: The Play-Work Continuum in Pediatric OT

30 Sept 2026
Ep. 85 Sensory Garments and Participation for Autistic Children

23 Sept 2026
Ep. 84 CO-OP for Kids with DCD and ADHD
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Ep. 81 OT Research for Down Syndrome
Published 2 Sept 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] I feel like it's just kind of like commonplace. And you're doing a lot of bread and butter, like OT interventions with them that you kind of forget, like, maybe I should look around. Maybe we should do some research. But it's really a tragedy because like the Down syndrome community is like, where's our research? Like our kids and our people deserve to have the same amount of research. And what is going on here? Yeah. And of course, the research matters because it supports figuring out what the effective interventions are. […]
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- Susi King
- Iona Novak
- Autistic adults
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Lacy and Michele host the show. Published by Michele Alaniz & Lacy Wright.
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