A key visual perceptual skill for children to develop is visual tracking. These skills develop at birth and continue to develop and advance as children get older. Teachers, pediatric occupational and physical therapists and parents should be educated on the importance of the development of all visual perceptual skills in children. What is visual tracking? […]
Classrooms are busy places! A student’s visual focus and attention can dart around the room due to the many distractions. Other students, teachers, doors opening, windows, lights, bulletin boards, whiteboards, computer screens, the list goes on and on of what can disrupt students’ visual focus and attention. There are many different strategies to help students […]
DIY Games to Encourage Visual Tracking Skills Visual perceptual skills require the ability to see, organize and interpret visual information. There are many different types of visual perceptual skills that are explained in detail here. Visual tracking is one type of visual perceptual skills. Visual tracking is the ability to control the eye movements using the oculomotor […]
I LOVE pool noodles. So cheap and so versatile to encourage fine motor, visual and gross motor skills. Here are some things we have done with pool noodles to practice motor skills: 1. Pool Noodle Parts and Colored Chips 2. Pool noodle stick 3. Pool noodle seat 4. Motor Planning and Pool Noodles […]
This fun activity encourages bilateral coordination, timing, eye hand coordination, visual tracking skills and upper extremity muscle strengthening. The key to this activity is teaching the child to hit each balloon or ball with the right hand and left in a rhythmic, controlled pattern. Have fun with it! Need more activity ideas? Turn fine motor […]
Here is a FREE sample activity from Find the Animals. Challenge visual tracking, visual spatial and visual motor skills with this activity. You can download the free puzzles here https://www.yourtherapysource.com/findanimalsfreebie.html [subscribe2] Get the complete download here https://www.yourtherapysource.com/findanimals.html
Here are 6 FREE sample pages from Patterns, Patterns, Patterns which is a collection of over 50 visual perceptual activities involving patterns. Children will be challenged to draw the patterns and find shapes, numbers or objects in a pattern. The activity pages are in black and white. Patterns, Patterns, Patterns stimulates: visual motor skills visual […]
The August issue of Pediatrics reports on a retrospective study over 11 years of over 2100 NICU newborns. The researchers discovered that the infants who later received a diagnosis of autism had a higher incidence of persistant neurobehavioral abnormalities such as increased upper extremity muscle tone and asymmetrical visual tracking at one month of age. […]