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3 Pre-Writing Activities Using Craft Sticks
Here are three simple activities using craft sticks to help learn horizontal, vertical and diagonal pre-writing strokes. Using the craft sticks makes the child associate linear objects with lines and provides a more kinesthetic approach versus just drawing lines. Find out more information about the activities at https://www.yourtherapysource.com/freeprewriting.html
“Help” or “Helper” for Life Skills
An interesting study was published in Child Development comparing the motivational levels of children willing to help adults based on how the children were asked to help. The participants included about 150, 3-6 year olds, who participated in two experiments. In one experiment, the adults talked to the children about helping then referred to helping […]
Child Focused and Context Focused Therapy Are Equally Effective
A group of researchers at the CanChild Centre in Canada completed research comparing child focused therapy and context focused therapy for children with cerebral palsy. The participants included 128 children with cerebral palsy who received one sessions of therapy per week by an OT or PT of either child focused therapy or context focused therapy. […]
Traveling Chalkboards
For awhile now I have been trying to figure out how to make some chalkboard items. I have tried the chalkboard spray paint which does work well on wood. I tried it on fabric and cardboard and did not have good results. The other day I received an email with a daily deal on repositionable […]
Educational Video of the Beery Buktenica Visual Motor Integration Assessment
Dr. Alisha Ohl, a practicing pediatric occupational therapist and professor at SUNY Downstate Medical Centers occupational therapy program, worked with a group of students in the creation of an educational video that focuses on improving administration and scoring of the Beery Buktenica Visual Motor Integration Assessment. The video consists of video clips demonstrating the administration of […]
Higher Aerobic Fitness and Improved Language Processing
Brain and Cognition published research on event-related brain potentials (ERPs) in children to determine the relationship between aerobic fitness and language processing. ERPs were recorded while children read normal sentences and those containing semantic or syntactic violations.The following results were found: 1. higher aerobically fit children exhibited greater amplitude when processing semantic information and shorter […]
Motor Skills Linked to Autism Severity in Young Children
Adapted Physical Activity Quarterly has published research on motor skill deficiencies and the severity of symptoms in 159 young children (110 with autism diagnosis) ages 12 – 33 months. The researcher, Megan MacDonald, from Oregon State University, found the following: 1. children with autism were nearly a year behind their typical peers in […]
Bottle Cap Words – Fine Motor and Visual Perceptual Activity
I love this recycled project to encourage fine motor skills, visual discrimination skills and letter recognition. It is inexpensive. Just save some bottle caps (these are all water bottle caps) and you need white circle stickers. Just make some word strips and match up the letters. This is a great make and take activity to […]
Relationship Between Handwriting and the Beery
The Australian Occupational Therapy Journal published research on 240 grade 2 children. The researchers wanted to determine whether the three subtests of the Beery Buktenica developmental test of visuomotor integration predicted quality of handwriting across and within groups of boys and girls classified as proficient, at risk or non-proficient writers according to the Concise Assessment Scale […]
5 Fine Motor Things to Do with Loom Bands Besides Making Bracelets
Ever wonder what else you could do with loom bands? Here are 5 suggestions that encourage fine motor skills, visual motor skills and hand strengthening (and none of them are bracelets)! Get all the directions at https://www.yourtherapysource.com/freeloombands.html [subscribe2]