Do you provide sensory groups during your therapy sessions or as brain breaks in the classroom? Is it ever a struggle for children to participate? Do you find that some children have the motor skills when playing alone but then have difficulties when they start playing in a group game? There are several brain benefits […]
I am so honored to be a guest blogger over at Dr. Jean and Friends for a post entitled 5 Tips for Movers and Shakers in the Classroom. If you are not familiar with Dr. Jean Feldman, I highly recommend that you check out her website and follow her blog. She has so many multisensory […]
Head over to YourTherapySource for three suggestions to play with a therex beach ball.
Purpose: Encourage following motor commands, motor memory and coordination skills. Materials: index cards with color words written on them (or use letters, numbers, sight words, vocabulary words, etc.) Activity: Give each child an index card with the color word on it and tape it to the child’s shirt. The children should sit in a circle […]
A recent study in the Journal of Rehabilitation Medicine was published on motor skill training for children with developmental coordination disorder (DCD). Twenty three children with DCD (mean age 8 yrs 1month) were split up with 12 children receiving motor skill training in a group and 11 on an individual basis, one time per week […]