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How to Play Catch with a Friend
Playing catch with a friend is always fun but do you ever stop and think about all the skills that are required to play catch? Learning how to play catch involves many skills. Tossing a ball back and forth requires eye hand coordination, visual motor skills, visual tracking, focus, timing, bilateral coordination, visual spatial skills, […]
How to Increase Home Exercise Program Compliance
How to increase home exercise program compliance for parents of children with disabilities can be a tough question to answer. Parents have a particularly tough job today. Juggling work, home life, children’s schedules, homework assignments and more can feel impossible on some days. Add home exercise programs for parents to perform with their children in […]
Free Summer Worksheet for Visual Motor Skills
Practicing writing strokes can get boring doing the same thing over and over again. This free summer worksheet for visual motor skills will mix things up and add visual scanning too! How to Complete the Free Summer Worksheet for Visual Motor Skills After you download the freebie at the end of this post you can […]
10 Simple Balance Activities for Kids
Does your child need to practice balance skills? There are many every day activities that help to strengthen children’s overall skills to maintain their balance. When children practice these types of skills all day long it is easier to see improvements. Check out these simple balance activities for kids. WHAT ARE BALANCE ACTIVITIES? Balance activities […]
Number Puzzle for Kids
This FREE number puzzle for kids to print will challenge visual perceptual skills along with number recognition. To start, how quickly can you find the number 1 in the puzzle? It has to be alone and not part of a double digit number. Harder than you think right? You can download the free printable number […]
5 Balance Activities with Paper
Let’s continue this series of simple and easy activities to do using household items. Today’s post is 5 balance activities with paper to challenge children’s balance skills. Using just a few sheets of paper, children can have fun and improve their balance skills while at home. Paper Balance Beam Let’s start off the balance activities […]
5 Fitness Activities for Kids to Do with Paper
Are you in search of activities to increase physical activity at home but short on supplies? There are plenty of ways to get active indoors only using a piece of paper! You can use regular 8.5″ by 11″ white printer paper, recycled paper or colored paper. Here are 5 fitness activities for kids using paper! […]
Exercise and ADHD – What Does the Research Say?
There has been many studies on exercise and ADHD that indicate a possible beneficial effect on functional outcomes for children with ADHD. A recent meta-analysis research study was completed and published in the Journal of Attention Disorders. Results of the Study on Exercise and ADHD After searching various databases, studies reporting on the effects of […]
5 Core Strengthening Exercises Using Paper
It is time to great creative! If you need to work on muscle strengthening at home, try these 5 core strengthening exercises using paper. Yes, that is correct – just a few sheets of paper. White printer paper works or recycled paper works too. If you want to jazz up the activities to increase a […]
Kinesio Tape, Balance and Children
A recent study examined the effect of Kinesio Taping (KT) effect on balance and foot arches in young people with intellectual disability. The researchers studied 30 young people with intellectual disability and flat feet. Methodology The participants were randomly assigned to an experimental group and a control group. Each person had their balance and foot […]