Does your child need some help with their handwriting, fine motor, and letter recognition skills? These 6 activities can be used alone or in an obstacle...
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These obstacle course ideas are strategies used in occupational therapy obstacle courses to target development of specific skills.
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Fingerprint art is a fine motor powerhouse. These cute little Letter of the Week Alphabet finger print crafts don’t really show how many fine motor skills are bring addressed! Four kids in eight years make a lot of fingerprints. Fingerprints on the fridge, fingerprints on the sink, and fingerprints on the windows. Then, there are ... Read more
These fine motor activities encourage kids to work on tripod grasp with everyday items to improve pencil grasp and motor skills.
50 fun and creative ideas to get kids moving that support successful transitions and build motor and sensory processing skills in kids!
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These school based scenario task cards and worksheets are the perfect low- prep resource for individual occupational and speech therapy sessions, as well as, social skills groups. Using these activities, therapists and teachers will be able to guide students in practicing problem solving social situations, identifying different emotions, and brainstorming self-regulation strategies. This bundle includes ten different scenarios for the classroom, specials classes, recess, bus, cafeteria, and field trips. Scenarios are provided in both task card and worksheet formats. I've also included open ended worksheet templates for students. You can use the blank task cards to create your own classroom scenarios, feelings chart, or self-regulation strategy list. I hope you enjoy these fun problem solving activities for teaching social skills and self-regulation as much as I do! Thank you! Emily Bales If you are looking for self regulation activities, check out these resources: Spring Self Regulation Activities Winter Regulation Bundle Fall Self Regulation Activities Construction Themed Self Regulation Activities Find more Two Sister's Therapy resources at Nicole's store Earn Credits Towards Future Purchases: If you like this product, please leave feedback at my TPT store. Each time you leave feedback, you earn credits that can be used towards your future TPT purchases! Let's Connect! To keep up with the latest on new products, sales and flash freebies, connect with me on: https://www.pinterest.com/twosisterstherapy/ or https://www.instagram.com/twosisterstherapy/ ............................................................................................................ Copyright © 2019 Emily Bales at TWOSISTERSTHERAPY.COM All rights reserved by author. Permission to copy for single classroom/therapy use only. Not for public display. About the Author: Emily Bales, MOT, OTR, is a school based occupational therapist in Texas. She also works in the home and clinical setting. Total Pages 35 pages Answer Key N/A Teaching Duration N/A
Gait and Posture published some intriguing research on the effects of touch and trunk sway in a seated position. There were 13 healthy, adult subjects who participated in the study. Each participant performed a total of 12 trials of 60-seconds duration in a randomized order, combining the experimental conditions of no-touch, hand-touch (right index finger touching an object) or back-touch (maintaining an object touching the back at mid level T10) with no sensory perturbation, paraspinal muscle vibration or galvanic vestibular stimulation - GVS (sending of electrical messages to a nerve in the ear that controls balance). The results showed the following: touch through hand or back decreased trunk sway and decreased the effects of muscle vibration and GVS GVS led to a large increase in sway muscle vibration was only observed as an increase of drift and not of sway the stabilizing effect of touch was strong enough to mask any effects of perturbations of vestibular and paraspinal muscle spindle afference The researchers concluded that tactile information, whenever available, seems to play a dominant role in seated postural sway and therefore has important implications for studying trunk control. Although this research was performed in healthy adult subjects, perhaps this gives us some suggestions to try with children to help to decrease postural sway in sitting. Is this why sometimes holding a fidget helps a child to sit more upright and stay more alert? Perhaps that child who is constantly slumping to one side could use some tactile input to maintain a more upright posture. Thoughts? Experiences? Reference: Maaswinkel E | Veeger Hej | Dieen JHv. Interactions of touch feedback with muscle vibration and galvanic vestibular stimulation in the control of trunk posture Available online 19 October 2013 at Gait and Posture
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[Source: Science Daily] Do students think best when on their feet? A new study by the Texas A&M Health Science Center School of Public Health indicates they do. Findings published recently in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health provide the first evidence of neurocognitive benefits of stand-height desks in classrooms, where students are given […]
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