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Lacing Activities for Children
Lacing Activities for Children Lacing activities help children develop fine motor skills, bilateral coordination, motor planning and visual perceptual skills. In addition, lacing helps children practice the precursor skills for shoe tying and sewing. You can start simple and have children practice lacing large beads progressing to smaller beads on a thread. If you want […]
How to Integrate Therapy Goals Into The Curriculum
How to Integrate Therapy Goals Into The Curriculum Curriculum refers to the lessons and materials that students will interact with to reach educational goals. Most elementary and high schools follow a specific curriculum for each subject. In general, a curriculum includes goals, instructional methodology, materials and assessments to measure progress. Therapy goals can be established […]
Functional Power Training Program for Children with Cerebral Palsy
Functional Power Training Program for Children with Cerebral Palsy Did you know that 60-70% of ambulatory children with spastic cerebral palsy are integrated into their community, schools and recreational activities? These children strive to participate in the same activities as their typical developing friends and peers. It can be very difficult though due to decreased walking […]
50+ Scheduling Tips for School Based Therapists
Scheduling Tips for School-Based Therapists Over the last few weeks, the Your Therapy Source survey was on scheduling tips for school-based therapists. It was a simple two question survey: what is your job title and what is your best suggestion for creating therapy schedules? You can answer the current survey here. For question #1, the […]
10 Games to Practice Crossing Midline
Crossing midline is the ability to cross over an imaginary line down the center of your body from head to toes, separating the body into a left and right side. This skill requires that the right and left sides of the brain work together to create a motor action. Here are 10 games to play […]
Meet the Therapist Letter Freebie for Back to School
Meet the Therapist Letter Freebie for Back to School Back to school is upon and one of the most important jobs of a school based therapist is to keep open lines of communication with teachers, staff, and parents. Complete this FREE Meet the Therapist Letter for Back to School to start the year off right […]
Add Laughter to Your Handwriting Practice
Add Laughter to Your Handwriting Practice Here are some FUN free decoding jokes to add laughter to your handwriting practice! This activity was created by Thia Triggs, school based Occupational Therapist, and is part of the complete Decoding Jokes packet here. Not only does this activity provide handwriting practice, it also encourages: Executive function and […]
Instruction Influences Handwriting Automaticity in Children
Instruction Influences Handwriting Automaticity in Children Reading and Writing published research on handwriting automaticity of 177 Australian children in 23 classrooms at the end of kindergarten and the amount and type of writing instruction they experienced before entering first grade. Individual child level data (e.g., handwriting automaticity and word-reading skills) were collected and teachers were […]
Motor Learning in Children with Unilateral Cerebral Palsy
Motor Learning in Children with Unilateral Cerebral Palsy Disability and Rehabilitation published research to examine explicit and implicit learning in children with unilateral cerebral palsy. The study compared the motor learning of children with left and right unilateral cerebral palsy and typically developing children while they shuffled disks toward a target using a prism-adaptation design. Each […]
The Ultimate Guide to Self Regulation in Children
The Ultimate Guide to Self-Regulation Self regulation is the ability to tolerate sensations, situations and distress and form appropriate responses. Simply stated, it is the ability to control emotions, thinking, behavior and motor actions in different situations.Here are the many different strategies, Here are the many different strategies, tips and resources that Your Therapy Source has […]