Whooooo’s There? Visual Motor Freebie
Download this visual motor and visual discrimination freebie at https://www.yourtherapysource.com/freethanksgivingowls2.html [subscribe2]
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]
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 […]
Practice Grading Pencil Pressure with this Freebie
Students can practice pressing light versus hard to shade the owl pictures. You can download it at https://www.yourtherapysource.com/freeshade.html.
Predicting Handwriting Using Reading, Fine Motor and Visual Motor Skills
The Journal of Occupational Therapy, Schools, & Early Intervention has published research on predicting handwriting performance in kindergarteners using reading, fine motor and visual motor measures. During the second semester of kindergarten, 48 students were assessed and the following results were recorded: 1. significant correlations were found between reading, handwriting, fine-motor, and visual-motor measures. 2. […]
3 Pre-Writing Activities Using Craft Sticks
Here are three simple activities using craft sticks to help learn horizontal, vertical and diagonal pre-writing strokes. Using the craft sticks makes the child associate linear objects with lines and provides a more kinesthetic approach versus just drawing lines. Find out more information about the activities at https://www.yourtherapysource.com/freeprewriting.html
Educational Video of the Beery Buktenica Visual Motor Integration Assessment
Dr. Alisha Ohl, a practicing pediatric occupational therapist and professor at SUNY Downstate Medical Centers occupational therapy program, worked with a group of students in the creation of an educational video that focuses on improving administration and scoring of the Beery Buktenica Visual Motor Integration Assessment. The video consists of video clips demonstrating the administration of […]
Relationship Between Handwriting and the Beery
The Australian Occupational Therapy Journal published research on 240 grade 2 children. The researchers wanted to determine whether the three subtests of the Beery Buktenica developmental test of visuomotor integration predicted quality of handwriting across and within groups of boys and girls classified as proficient, at risk or non-proficient writers according to the Concise Assessment Scale […]
Coloring Shape Stencils
How cool is this project? It reminds me of a zentangle which I always find very calming to do. There are two ways to complete this activity to encourage visual motor skills, grading of movements and visual spatial skills. 1. Doodle Shape Stencils – Draw any random doodle all over a piece of paper with […]
Visual Motor Activity with Magnetic Cars
Here is a quick, simple visual motor activity for any of those car loving kids – magnetic cars on the whiteboard. Glue a magnet to the underside of a toy car. Place on whiteboard. That’s it, the activity is all set. Here are some ideas to do with the magnetic cars to encourage visual motor […]