This 7 minute animal themed HIIT workout for kids improves emotional regulation and reduces meltdowns. Loved by OTs, teachers, and parents alike!
Discover over 45 vestibular activities that can calm, regulate, and improve attention in your child. Plus, get vestibular exercises for...
What children are afraid of.. As children grow up, they develop diferrent fears and worries. Some of these feelings are common in all stages of child development.
This Blog and Infographic will review tonic reflexes, their significance if the reflex persists beyond the typical age range, and the possible impact on a child’s functioning and role performance. Last but not least, this blog will suggest therapeutic interventions that are known to help inhibit the activation of tonic reflexes and advance postural control as a foundation for optimal functioning.
Over 80 amazing, simple proprioceptive activities for kids. Learn benefits of proprioceptive input to calm, focus, and alert.
Learn the 8 best calming ideas for kids! These 8 ways are sensory based and help calm kids down when they feel anxious or over active.
Toe walking is a common reason for kids to be referred to therapy. Learn more about toe walking causes and treatment.
Sensory Diet: Practical Ways to Incorporate Sensory Input for children and students. Includes Discussion of Sensory Systems, Evidence Base Research on Sensory Diets, and free printables to create a Sensory Diet.
How often should I bathe my baby is the most common question new parents have. Learn about frequency and proper bath process from newborn to toddler age here!
For children needing proprioceptive outlets and/or exposure, use these proprioception toys and tools as a part of a sensory diet at home.
Have you started to notice that your child is walking on their toes while playing, walking around the house or out in the community? It may be something they do all the time or only a few times a day. Things to consider when observing your child: Are they on their toes every time they…
Five Fun Activities with Dyna Discs! Dyna Disc activities for children to address balance, strength, motor planning & posture!
These exercises below would be a useful addition to any soccer training session for U13-U16 players.
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What is sensory processing. Tactile Input explained and its importance for growth and development in kids.
Sensory Diet: Practical Ways to Incorporate Sensory Input for children and students. Includes Discussion of Sensory Systems, Evidence Base Research on Sensory Diets, and free printables to create a Sensory Diet.
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Maybe you weren't born with gorgeous, overarched feet, but that doesn't mean you're completely stuck with what you've got. "Strength and flexibility can improve with training, but that's within the limits of your individual anatomy," says Dr. Nancy Kadel, a Seattle-based orthopedic surgeon who specializes in dancers' foot and ankle issues. Building a balance of both will help you achieve more supple feet that can support ballet's demands. Kadel recommends the following:
You might be wondering, yeah, but when should I worry about W Sitting? When is it really a problem? The expert pediatric therapists reveal the truth ...
The human brain is a paired organ; it consists of two halves that look alike. What is brain lateralization? Brain lateralization is just the fact that the two halves of the brain are quite different from each other. Both sides have different jobs that they do, and each side is highly specialized in those functions. For example, you may be aware that the left side of the brain is specialized for language. Crossing Midline, or "cross lateralization": We talk a lot in OT about "crossing midline". Crossing midline simply means that a a child reaches across their body with either hand (such as to use his/her left hand to reach across to the right of their body and vice versa). Think of it as if there is an imaginary vertical line down the center of their body, and crossing midline would mean moving a hand or foot across that line to the other side of it. Well, what does this do in terms of brain function? When a child crosses midline, new connections are made between the right side and the left side, and both sides then are working together, rather than independently of each other. It integrates the 2 sides of the brain, and organizes the brain for better concentration and problem solving. This is needed for reading and writing, as a child must cross midline when reading and printing from left to right across a page. Many self help skills require being able to cross midline, as well as sports activities and other daily skills. The ability to cross midline develops as bilateral coordination skills develop. The child learns to coordinate their stronger hand (used for specialized skill) with their helper hand (the hand that they use to assist the dominant hand). See an earlier post titled "Bilateral Integration/Coordination," dated 6-8-13 for activity ideas for improving bilateral coordination. This is an example of a child reaching across midline. You may notice that children who have difficulty reaching across midline often stop in mid-reach and switch hands. Keep in mind that when a child routinely switches hands, each hand then gets equal practice, and true hand dominance does not develop or may be delayed in developing. You may also notice that they turn their trunk to reach toward the opposite side instead of reaching across it. This lack of trunk rotation limits crossing midline, and one way to work on this would be to work on core stability (see earlier post, "Postural Control and Shoulder Stability for Fine Motor Skills," dated 6/3/13 for more info on how to do that). Also, they may exhibit difficulty visually tracking a moving object from one side to the other or have difficulty following along from left to right when reading. "Right handed" child completing a coloring task. Note that the crayons are located on the left side of the paper. Same child- note that when he changed colors, he picked up the crayon with his left hand, because they were to the left of the paper. This is not a child who readily crosses midline. The following are activities that you can do with your child to encourage crossing midline: -Complete sorting or reaching and placing activities: have your child pick up items that are on the right side of them with their right hand, and reach over and place them on their left side (and vice versa). Sort objects into containers in this manner, place pegs in pegboards, etc. -Complete worksheets or draw on large sheets of paper for which the child has to draw a line from one side of the paper to the other. -Cone or cup transfer: Transfer/stack cones or cups with the right hand from right to left and from left to right. Switch hands. See top photo above for example. -Complete cross crawls: in standing, pick up left knee and touch right hand to it, and then right knee and touch left hand to it, and continue on in this manner, alternating back and forth for a number of repetitions. -Place a long line of masking tape on the floor. Have your child walk along the tape line, scissoring their legs (stand with each foot on each side of the tape line, walk along the line by crossing one foot over the other and stepping on the opposite side of the tape line). Can also do this with their hands while in 4 point along the tape line on the floor, or up a tape line on the wall. -Check out Brain Gym- many of the activities that are Brain Gym based are related to crossing midline. Find out more about this here: http://www.braingym.org/index Here is a link for 10 free Brain Gym Activities: http://sspw.dpi.wi.gov/files/sspw/pdf/sascevanshandouts.pdf
Aquí un par de ideas para trabajar las Funciones Ejecutivas, en especial la imitación, guardadas desde la página de facebook de Activitea...
This Make a face resources has 12 different sets of eyes and mouths and a set of emotions vocabulary flash cards. Help children to learn about emotions.
When I had my first baby, I realized first hand how hard it was to get anything done.. much less a good workout. My son was crying and crying and wouldn’t nap because all he wanted was mommy’s attention and to be held. So, one day, I held him in both arms as I was […]
Need some refreshing and inspiring ideas for sport skills to teach? Try these simple to set up, self-running PE stations for your class to rotate around. Students work in groups of 2, and in some o…
