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Research: Children Are Significantly Less Fit than Decades Ago
Photo by Chucka_NC on Flicker Creative Commons License The American Heart Association presented research on 50 studies on running fitness between 1964 and 2010 that involved more than 25 million kids, ages 9 to 17, in 28 countries. Most of the studies measured cardiovascular endurance by how far kids could run in a set time […]
5 Tips on Tackling Big Goals
At times, all children need some help to achieve big goals. Whether it be a lofty IEP goal that you inherited, a large project the student needs to complete or a complex motor skill often times it is easier to break it up into smaller, more manageable chunks. Teachers call it scaffolding and therapists sometimes […]
Fine Motor Bean Matching Boards
Print out the matching bean boards and read the directions to create this fine motor, visual perceptual and graded muscle control challenge. Modifications included to add in physical activity to the task. You can read about it and download the matching boards for free at https://www.yourtherapysource.com/freebeans.html
Visual Motor Integration Free Handout
Check out the latest freebie from the What? Why? How? Series 4 on Visual Skills. This freebie is on Visual Motor Integration. You can download it at https://www.yourtherapysource.com/wwh4free.html.
Hippotherapy and Children with Autism
The American Journal of Occupational Therapy published a pilot study on 6 children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) who participated in 45 minute hippotherapy sessions for 12 weeks. To determine pre and post intervention scores the following were used: the Vineland Adaptive Behavior Scales–II, the Child Activity Card Sort, force plates and a video motion […]
Visual Memory and Fine Motor Box
Watch the video on how to create this visual memory and fine motor box at https://www.yourtherapysource.com/videovisualmemory.html.
Active Prospective Control Necessary for Sensorimotor Learning
Recent research studied 36 adults with no history of motor or neurological impairments were assigned to one of three groups – active (participant actively guides movement), passive (therapist or robot guides movement) or control group. This study used haptic tracking for the passive movement. The results indicated the following: no effective learning with passive movement […]
Great Drawing Card Game – Pick and Draw
This is a wonderful drawing card game called Pick and Draw. If you are looking for a compact, easy to travel with, learn to draw tool, you should check out this activity. I received a free copy of the card game and the book to review this product. The card game comes in a plastic case […]
Sleep Patterns in Children with Autism
The Archives of Disease in Childhood published research on longitudinal sleep patterns in 73 children with autism. Parental reports of sleep duration were collected 8 times from 6 months to 11 years old. The results indicated the following: from 30 months to 11 years old children with autism sleep 17-43 minutes less than their peers […]
Physical Activity and Academic Attainment in Adolescents
The British Journal of Sports Medicine published research on physical activity using accelerometers on 4755 participants (45% male) who were 11 years old. The data was then linked with nationally administered school tests in the United Kingdom in English, Math and Science at ages 11, 13 and 16.The results indicated the following: percentage of time […]