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New Handwriting App – Handwriting Heroes Created By an OT
Handwriting Heroes is a new handwriting app developed by Cheryl Bregman who is an occupational therapist. You may be familiar with her from another amazing app she created Abilipad which is a customizable keyboard and adaptive notepad, with word prediction and text-to-speech. I asked Cheryl to answer a few questions about her career and her development […]
Summer Olympic Games Freebie Activity
The Summer Olympic Games are only a few weeks away! This Summer Olympic games freebie activity, Find and Color is a fun way to encourage visual discrimination and visual motor skills with a Summer Olympic theme. You can download it for FREE at the bottom of the post. HOW TO COMPLETE THE FIND AND COLOR […]
Homemade Play Dough Recipes and Activity Ideas
Pediatric therapists, parents and teachers use homemade play dough recipes daily. Here is a collection of fun ones from the Internet to explore. 1. Recipes for Sensory Fun: This is a nice 5 page download created by a therapy company to hand out to parents. 2. Nuture Store – Let’s Play with Dough – includes […]
Find the Differences Visual Discrimination Puzzle
Can you use your visual discrimination and visual scanning skills to find and circle the five differences in this picture? Download this freebie from the Find the Differences Packet. The best thing about this puzzle is that it is not too difficult. Some of the puzzles that are available for children to spot the differences […]
Keep Calm and Do Yoga
Keep calm and do yoga. No one can deny that yoga helps to calm children. Hang up this reminder in your therapy room, classroom or yoga studio. You can print it in color or choose 2 different black and white posters that the children can color for you to hang up. Try using it as […]
Concussion Guidelines for Returning to Activity and School for Children
As pediatric therapists we may be involved in helping children return to activity and/or school following a concussion. Of course, you should always work in conjunction with a physician but there are specific guidelines to follow. CanChild has done a great job of creating evidence based resources to return to activity and school for youth […]
Q&A: Looking for Free Worksheets for Memory, Decision Making and Planning
I received this question from a reader and thought it would be beneficial to post a Q&A for everyone to read. Question: I am looking for free worksheets or handouts for memory, problem solving, decision making, and planning. Do you have any of these? Answer: Sure, we have some free worksheets about these topics. […]
Superhero Match Up Fine Motor and Memory Activity
Challenge fine motor and memory skills with this Superhero Match Up freebie from the Superhero packet. Print and laminate the page. Using thumb, index and middle finger create small balls of clay. Flatten each ball between thumb and index finger. Place clay over each circle. Player one removes two pieces of clay. If it is a […]
3 Free Animal Printables to Get Moving and Learning
Combine pretend play with physical activity while you move and learn with these free animal printables. All you need to do is print the activities and you are set to go. Not only will you be encouraging physical activity, proprioceptive input and body awareness but children will also review math concepts and practice visual perceptual […]
Effects of Car Seats on Infant Leg Movement
Nowadays, babies are spending more and more time in car seats. Families are busy running to day care, extra curricular activities for siblings and the stores. When the baby is buckled into the car seat, all too often parents just transition the car seat to the next location and plop the car seat in the […]