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June 2019 Your Therapy Source Digital Magazine – FREE
The FREE June 2019 Your Therapy Source Digital Magazine has been posted. Subscribe below to download the magazine. This month’s articles include: FINE MOTOR SKILLS GAME – EAT THE CHEESE (FREE PRINTABLE) 15 SILLY DRAWING GAMES FOR KIDS INCREASING ENGAGEMENT ON THE PLAYGROUND FOR STUDENTS WITH AUTISM VISUAL SCANNING ACTIVITIES – FREE PRINTABLES AND IDEAS […]
Lazy Eight Handwriting Grand Prix Fine Motor Skill Builder – Free Printables
If you want to practice pre-writing skills, crossing midline, and fine motor skills, check out this FREE printable packet – Lazy Eight Handwriting Grand Prix Fine Motor Skill Builder. You can download it for free at the end of this post. Children can work on improving the flow and control of arm movements, develops eye-hand […]
Hand Motor Function in Unilateral Cerebral Palsy – Benefits of Peer Interaction
Therapeutic activities for children with unilateral cerebral palsy are often suggested to help improve hand motor function in children with unilateral cerebral palsy. A recent study indicated that there are benefits to child-to-child interaction when it comes to hand motor function in children with unilateral cerebral palsy. What did the study investigate? This study was […]
Free Blends Worksheets – Multisensory Learning
Consonant blends have two or three letters whose sounds are pronounced individually and said quickly so they blend together. Here are 5 free blends worksheets with a multisensory approach. Students can practice scissor skills, pasting, drawing, handwriting, and sentence structure to learn new blends with these 5 free blends worksheets. You can download them for […]
10 Common Mistakes Pediatric Therapy Mentors Make
Pediatric therapy mentors have an exciting opportunity to become a leader in their field and to hone their clinical skills. However, this experience requires the investment of their time, energy, and resources, so it should not be taken lightly. To make mentorship a positive experience for both you and your mentee, here are 10 common […]
Classroom Transition Ideas – 10 Tips To Improve Transition Time
Do you have students who have difficulty transitioning from one activity to another? Maybe they have a hard time transitioning from the classroom to the therapy room or special class. There are many reasons why a student may have trouble with transitions. Think about all the skills needed for successful transitions: listening skills: students need […]
10 Self-Reflection Questions for the End of the School Year
Self-reflection helps you to analyze your professional and personal growth. By keeping a record of your ideas, reasons, actions, techniques, and assessments you can plan for your future and facilitate a positive outcome. Take a few minutes to look back on the past school year. Use these 10 open-ended questions to ask yourself at the […]
Impulse Control Game for Kids
Are you looking to work on impulse control, focus, and self-regulation in children? This fun and challenging impulse control game for kids can be downloaded for free at the end of the post! If your students or children have trouble focusing, settling down, staying on task, or dealing appropriately with their impulses this is a […]
How to Use Breathing Exercises For Executive Function Skills
Breathing techniques can offer easy-to-practice activities for building basic self-regulation in the body of youngsters and in your classroom. Here are suggestions on how to use breathing exercises for executive function skills. The official definition of executive function is a set of processes that all have to do with managing oneself and one’s resources in […]
5 Everyday Outdoor Activities to Practice Self Regulation Skills
Self-regulation is the ability of a person to tolerate sensations, situations and distress and form appropriate responses to that sensory input. Simply stated, it is the ability to control behavior. The ability to self regulate in children is a predictor for academic abilities. Here are 5 everyday outdoor activities to practice self- regulation skills in […]