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ADHD, Medication and Handwriting
Journal of Attention Disorders published research on 49 children newly diagnosed with ADHD to determine how motor and attention skills influence handwriting performance. The children were evaluated for handwriting performance before and after 3 months of stimulant use. The results indicated the following: 1. handwriting legibility and speed improved significantly at follow-up evaluation after the […]
Working Memory, Fine Motor Skills and Early Numeracy in Cerebral Palsy
Child Neuropsychology published research exploring the relationship between working memory, non-verbal intelligence, linguistic skills, counting, fine motor skills and early numeracy in 56, six year old children with cerebral palsy. Each child was evaluated for early numeracy performance, working memory, non-verbal intelligence, sentence understanding and fine motor skills. In addition, basic counting performance was assessed. The results […]
Working Memory Exercises – Farm Animal Freebie
Here is a freebie to practice working memory skills. This freebie is one of the Level 1 exercises. Working Memory Exercises encourage: visual memory skills working memory skills handwriting practice executive function skills You can download the activity at https://www.yourtherapysource.com/workingmemoryfreebie.html You can find out more information about the Working Memory Exercises Level 1 and Level 2 […]
Exercise, Academic Engagement and Children with Autism
Pediatric Physical Therapy published research exploring whether participation in aerobic exercise before classroom activities improves academic engagement and reduces stereotypic behaviors in 4 classrooms of 24 children (ages 3-6 years old) with autism spectrum disorder. Methods: This study consisted of a treatment condition of 15 minutes of aerobic exercise followed by a classroom task and a control […]
Color Copy Challenge – Visual Motor and Visual Spatial Activity
Download this freebie to practice visual motor and visual spatial skills. Copy the colors exactly or use the black and white version. Player one colors in the top and player two copies the colors. You can download it at https://www.yourtherapysource.com/freecolorchallenge.html [subscribe2] Practice copying different patterns using various sizes and techniques to encourage different fine motor […]
Paint My Wings App for Double Doodles
Are you familiar with double doodles? It is a Brain Gym® bilateral drawing activity to help with eye hand coordination, spatial awareness, right/left discrimination and visual discrimination skills. Here is a new app that facilitates double doodling called Paint My Wings, from one of my favorite developers, Toca Boca. Of course it is cute and […]
Sensory Integration, Social Participation and Autism
The American Journal of Occupational Therapy published research from clinical records of 89 children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) ages 4-11 years old . The research examined whether sensory integration (SI) and praxis patterns of the children were related to social participation. Using SIPT standard scores, SPM standard and SPM Social Participation scores, SI and praxis […]
Recreational Programs for Children and Grants
Summer is almost here in the Northeast and school will get out near the end of June. For some therapists, this means time off or reduced caseloads. If you are looking for some summer work (which I doubt you are but figured I would offer) how about plan a new, unique program to start up […]
Handwriting and Dyslexia
Human Movement Science published research demonstrating that deficits in the specific motor activity of handwriting are associated with developmental dyslexia. The subjects were evaluated for linguistic and writing performance and included children with developmental dyslexia, with and without handwriting problems (dysgraphia) and children with typical development. Using a digitized tablet, the quantitative kinematic variables of […]
Early Motor Skills and Language Development
Early motor skills may affect language development Hayley Leonard, Goldsmiths, University of London and Elisabeth L Hill, Goldsmiths, University of London Learning to sit up, crawl and walk are all major milestones in a child’s early development – and parents often record these actions in baby diaries, photographs and videos. Developing motor skills allows the […]