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Find and Draw Visual Motor Activity for Halloween
Practice visual discrimination and visual motor skills with this Find and Draw Halloween freebie from Halloween Visual Perceptual Puzzles. You can download the Find and Draw Halloween freebie here. Halloween Visual Perceptual Puzzles – 12 puzzles to challenge visual motor, visual closure, visual spatial and visual discrimination skills. Find out more.
Practice Makes Progress Not Perfect
Here are two new motivational posters for occupational and physical therapy. Always remember we are not looking for perfection just progress! To purchase the Practice Makes Progress OT poster click here https://www.yourtherapysource.com/posterpracticeOT.htmlTo purchase the Practice Makes Progress Not Perfect PT poster click here https://www.yourtherapysource.com/posterpracticePT.html
Norms for Core Strength in Children
I frequently get asked where you can find norms to measure core strength in children. As pediatric therapists, we sometimes use supine flexion, prone extension, modified sit ups and push ups as measures of core strength. I don’t usually refer to the norms for core strength in children but more look at the quality of […]
Visual Picture Cards for Catching Skills
Help children learn how to catch a ball with these step by step visual instructions. This is a freebie from the latest packet – Teaching Catching, Throwing and Kicking Skills. You can download the picture cards here https://www.yourtherapysource.com/teachcatchthrowkickfreebie.html Get more information on the complete download here https://www.yourtherapysource.com/teachcatchthrowkick.html
Sleep and Children with Cerebral Palsy
CanChild has published another excellent resource which is entitled Keeping Current In Sleep Issues Among Children with Cerebral Palsy. Here are some highlights: Studies show that rates of sleep disturbances in children with cerebral palsy are actually quite similar to the general population and affect about one third of children. Certain aspects of CP are […]
Brief Movement Breaks Help Children with Glucose Tolerance
The National Institutes of Health completed a research study to determine if interrupting sitting with short, moderate-intensity walking bouts could improve glucose tolerance in 28 healthy, normal weight 7-11 year old children. The children went two times to a medical center after an overnight fast – (1) one time they remained seated for 3 hours with […]
DIY Screw and Unscrew the Lids Box
Have you ever noticed how much young children like to put lids on and off of containers? Here is a simple do it yourself project to get little fingers moving and working! You can view the video for how to make it and watch it in action at https://www.yourtherapysource.com/videolids.html
8 Free Printables for Fall
Here are 8 free printables for fine motor, gross motor and visual perceptual activities with a Fall theme. Leaf Animals – Print and create some leaf animals to practice fine motor skills. Download here https://www.yourtherapysource.com/fmfallfree.html Pumpkin Patch Fine Motor Game – download here https://www.yourtherapysource.com/freepumpkinpatch.html Handwriting Hunt for Autumn – getting moving and writing with this activity. […]
Handwriting and Learning to Read
Did you know some research indicates that brain activation when identifying letters is influenced by previous handwriting of letters? Researchers at Indiana University have published several research articles on visual perceptual skills in children. One article that was published in Trends in Neuroscience and Education examined 15 preliterate, right handed children (ages 4.2-5 years old). During functional MRI scanning, […]
Comparing Seating Systems
Pediatric Physical Therapy published a single case study comparing physiological functioning, communication switch activation, and response accuracy in a 19-year-old young man with quadriplegic cerebral palsy and neurological scoliosis using 2 seating systems within the school setting. A alternating treatment design was used recording data from the following conditions: baseline (standard planar inserts), using a […]