If your student is having a hard time focusing on their schoolwork these days why not try games instead! Read through for a list of my favorite OT Teletherapy games that can be played off-screen and on-screen. Shhh! They won’t know they are still learning through play!
The Z axis As therapists, we recognize the importance of mid-line crossing to help with primitive reflexes. Reaching lateral outside…
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Use these 10 board games to boost handwriting development for your preschool to early elementary aged child.
Happy OT Month 2016! Four years after initially learning about OT, three years after going through the wildly difficult OT school application process, two years after starting OT school, and just F…
I am always looking for ideas to shake up my OT treatments and try to get creative with activity tolerance activities, because it is just NOT functional or
Hand-eye coordination is an important skill to have as it helps us to complete many everyday activities including picking things up, writing and driving. Hand-eye coordination involves our eyes taking in visual information, and the brain responding by sending signals to the arms and hands to react, according to Harvard Health. We can improve this skill by doing different types of exercises like this one. Includes: 1 Board and 8 pages with exercises for Right and Left Hand for Beginners 1 Board and 6 pages with exercises for Right and Left Hand for Advanced Instructions: With the index finger of the left hand, the child should follow each circle on the board and, based on its color, perform the corresponding exercise with the right hand. After completing the exercises, switch hands. !!! It is recommended to perform the exercise for short periods of time (3-5 minutes), daily. Alternate with other exercises for best results. !!! Other Activities: Brain Teasers and Hand Eye Coordination Activities Corner: Classroom Decor Hand-Eye Coordination Activity: Brain Training and Finger Muscle Development Shapes - Forefinger Gym - Bilateral Brain Development Activity- Transition Games
Sometimes getting your child to write can be challenging. Here are some fun games to help make sure your child is forming all his or her letters correctly. Handwriting Game #1 You will need: paper,…
It's that time of year again... We've got just a few short weeks left with our kiddos. Let's be honest though, we're all tired. More like exhausted. Summer
Use these 10 games for handwriting practice, allowing kids to improve legibility, sizing, placement, and more as they play.
I like to have simple board games on hand for individual sessions, especially when I am pulling students who didn’t ask to see me themselves {but rather were referred by their parents or teac…
These board games provide all sorts of occupational therapy benefits! Midline crossing, hand eye coordination, proprioception, vestibular input, visual discrimination and more!
From a therapy standpoint, inclusion means “pushing into” classrooms to deliver services rather than pulling kids out for therapy sessions.
5 ways to celebrate OT Month!
Letter Formation Games are a fun way to motivate students to work on writing and letter recognition. Develop critical fine motor skills
Interoception is the awareness of bodily sensations. It is the sense of knowing the internal condition of your body. I explain what the 8th sensory system is and how it works below.
These fine motor activities encourage kids to work on tripod grasp with everyday items to improve pencil grasp and motor skills.
These visual tracking tips and tools will help kids with skills like reading, writing, and other learning tasks. Visual tracking is a visual mobility skill.
Use these emotional regulation games to teach the Zones of Regulation or any emotional regulation curriculum.
I have been racking my brain trying to come up with a few simple stocking stuffers and today an idea hit me. I saw these cute little finger twister boards but was not about to actually pay money for them... I figured It wouldn't be to hard to make something similar on my own. So if your interested in making your own go ahead and save these images to your computer and print them out on a regular size paper, they will end up being 5X5-6X6in' squares. All you'll need is the images of the twister board and spinner that you print out, some sort of cardboard/chipboard(you could even use a cereal box), glue, a spinner, and a thumbtack. You can make your spinner from cardboard or any stiff object you can think of...I got lucky and found these plastic arrows in our gogurt box(a free gift to help you roll your gogurt). ha ha Bet gogurt didn't know how perfect they would be for my finger twister board!! First cut out your boards and glue them onto your chipboard. If by chance you are using spray glue like I did, make sure you spray the chipboard and not the paper(sometimes it soaks through the paper so I always spray the thicker material I'm using). Trim up the edges and tack on your spinner. Make sure your thumbtack isn't pressed all the way in, so the spinner has room to spin of course. And to avoid being pricked by the tack, take some pliers and bend the bottom of the tack under. And there you go, your ready to battle it out finger style! (By the way my printer was running out of ink, Your colors will be way more vibrant) Simple,fast and fun... perfect stocking stuffer for those game lovers!
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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.
Occupational therapy certifications and specialties are such a great way to niche down in your practice - learn some of the most common in OT!
Inside you’ll find sensory activities you can do with one simple piece of equipment: a scooter board! The determination in his eyes was intense. His tongue was posed like Michael Jordan going up of a dunk. My son takes his scooter board games seriously. And the secret is, he has NO IDEA he’s getting tons [...]
This post may contain affiliate links.I have been working on some clothespin games for at least six months now. I wanted to have a board to attach clothespins to, but to have the option to play several different games. I went through a lot of trials and errors before I came up with my current...
Looking for free cognitive assessments for your adult patient population? Check out these five free assessments with instructions.
Working PRN at the SNF on weekends, it can get a little lonely. I much prefer the weekdays of Christmas break and Summer break that I get to work with the entire team! Since I have known them all so long…and they know my ways…I like to leave little silly notes for them like the ... Read More about Play Ball Like an SLP
This resource covers information on the proprioceptive sense and includes proprioception sensory activities for kids.
Use these occupational therapy teletherapy activities in planning online therapy for early intervention, kindergarten, elementary, and middle school.
These occupational therapy interventions are OT activities for kids to help with child development of functional skills.
An Auditory Sequencing Game. This is a game that combines sequencing, following directions and pizza. Read the story for this auditory sequencing game.
Here are a couple simple and easy to make therapeutic board games. These are also games you can find at your local second hand toy shop. :) Don’t Break the Ice- anger management style Simply …
The Z axis As therapists, we recognize the importance of mid-line crossing to help with primitive reflexes. Reaching lateral outside…
