Practice visual discrimination and visual motor skills with this Holiday Lights Tracing freebie from the December Visual Perceptual Puzzles. December Visual Perceptual Puzzles By: Your Therapy Source, Inc Summary: Download of 20 visual motor, visual spatial, visual closure and visual perceptual challenges with a December theme. FIND OUT MORE AT https://www.yourtherapysource.com/vpdecember.html
This freebie challenges visual perceptual skills with a Thanksgiving theme. Practice visual motor, visual discrimination, visual spatial, visual closure and overall visual perceptual skills with these printables. Print off multiple copies for your students and your activities are ready to go for fine motor centers in the classroom, visual motor skill practice, special education classrooms, […]
I heard about Writing Practice – Educators Edition with Ruled Paper from SmartAppsforKids and it is free today – 10/23/15. I was just testing it out briefly and it seems like it could be useful for the following: Free form writing – you can just write letters, shapes and numbers anywhere in different colors. It […]
Recent research (Master’s thesis) explored whether the use of stability balls affect the development of handwriting. The study used a pre-test, intervention, post test design with the Handwriting Without Tears Screener of Handwriting. The experimental group consisted of 19 kindergartens who used stability balls. The control group consisted of 19 kindergartens who did not use stability balls. […]
Here are four skeleton coloring pages to create a mask or just relax and color. They are varying in difficulty including one that an adult may enjoy to color. Download your free pages from Your Therapy Source here https://www.yourtherapysource.com/freeskeleton.html Title of Download: Halloween Visual Perceptual Puzzles By: Your Therapy Source, Inc Summary: Download of 12 visual […]
Practice visual discrimination and visual motor skills with this Find and Draw Halloween freebie from Halloween Visual Perceptual Puzzles. You can download the Find and Draw Halloween freebie here. Halloween Visual Perceptual Puzzles – 12 puzzles to challenge visual motor, visual closure, visual spatial and visual discrimination skills. Find out more.
Did you know some research indicates that brain activation when identifying letters is influenced by previous handwriting of letters? Researchers at Indiana University have published several research articles on visual perceptual skills in children. One article that was published in Trends in Neuroscience and Education examined 15 preliterate, right handed children (ages 4.2-5 years old). During functional MRI scanning, […]
Here is a freebie from the latest packet – Fall Visual Perceptual Puzzles. Challenge visual motor, visual spatial and motor planning skills with this Fall themed activity. You can download it here https://www.yourtherapysource.com/vpfallfreebie.html
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The American Journal of Occupational Therapy published pretest-posttest research with 207 kindergarten, first-grade, and second-grade students. The intervention group participated in the Size Matters Handwriting program for 40 sessions and the control group received standard instruction. All the groups were evaluated with two handwriting measures and the Beery–Buktenica Developmental Test of Visual–Motor Integration (VMI) […]