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Archive for month: October, 2014
Homemade Painting Tools
Create these homemade painting tools with cardboard, scissors and clothes pins. Children will practice cutting skills, hand strengthening and visual motor skills with this painting activity. Watch the video at https://www.yourtherapysource.com/videopaintingtools.html [subscribe2]
Mental Practice versus Physical Practice for Finger Opposition Skills in Children
Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport published research on the effects of mental practice (MP) and physical practice (PP) on a finger opposition task among 36, nine to ten years old, children. The children were randomly assigned to either a MP group, PP group or no practice (NP) group. The MP and PP groups participated […]
Free Cutting Skills Strips
Download some free cutting strips for children to practice basic scissor skills. You can download the 3 black and white pages and 3 color pages at https://www.yourtherapysource.com/freecuttingstrips.html [subscribe2]
12 Printable Halloween Freebies
Need some last minute Halloween activities? Here are 12 free printable activities: 1. 4 Pages from Halloween Handwriting Activities at https://www.yourtherapysource.com/files/Halloween_free_sample.pdf 2. Halloween Clothes Pin Mat at https://www.yourtherapysource.com/freehalloweenmat.html 3. Pumpkin Patch Fine Motor Game at https://www.yourtherapysource.com/freepumpkinpatch.html 4. Jack O Lantern Challenge Maze at https://www.yourtherapysource.com/freejackolanternmaze.html 5. Copy the Clay Monsters at https://www.yourtherapysource.com/freeclaymonster.html 6. Halloween Handwriting Hunt at https://www.yourtherapysource.com/hwhuntshalloweenfree.html 7. Halloween Door Hanger […]
Gait and Stability in Different Baby Shoes
Pediatric Physical Therapy published research on the effects of different torsional flexibilities of shoes on gait and stability in 25 children who were walking five months or less. The children were evaluated barefoot and in 4 types of shoes with different torsional flexibilities (UltraFlex, MidFlex, LowFlex, and Stiff). Gait assessments were performed and stability was […]
Make Your Own Comics
MakeBeliefsComix (http://www.makebeliefscomix.com/) is a FREE website that has been around for some time now. I have recommended it before but now they added even more! There are new characters and clip art. In addition, they have added a new section on how to use MakeBeliefsComix with children who may have autism, learning disabilities, physical disabilities […]
Eye Movements During Reading and Cerebral Palsy
Recent research investigated the extent to which the motor impairments in adults with cerebral palsy affected their ability to read. Using an eye-tracking system, eye movements were recorded during a reading task (read out loud 1-5 excerpts from children’s books) in 31 adults diagnosed with cerebral palsy and in 10 healthy controls. The results indicated […]
Handwriting Stations
Here are a few sample pages from a new download that includes the materials to create handwriting stations. The complete download of the Handwriting Stations are perfect for classroom use, therapy sessions or home use for proper letter formation, warm up exercises, proper posture, pencil grip tips, letter reversals and self checking. Also included are […]
Autumn Visual Closure Activity
Here is an autumn visual closure and visual motor activity to download from Your Therapy Source. Draw a line connecting the enlarged picture to the complete picture. Download the Autumn Close Up Activity. This download is a collection of visual perceptual worksheets with a Fall theme. Practice visual motor, visual discrimination, visual spatial, visual closure and […]