This is a helpful tool to see if your client has the skills needed for IADL's. Particularly helpful with TBI clients, you can better target additional skills that need to be worked on so they can be independent in their daily lives. High school students...
We have included a blank template so that you can make your own patterns with the shapes and glue them in the top row of boxes and let the clients duplicate it in the boxes below. If you do not have a colored printer, just...
Many of our elderly clients find this handout useful because of limited energy and ideas to make themselves food. These are easy to prepare and delicious. Keep things easier on the hands by purchasing already shredded cheese or chopped olives in the can. Share your own delicious...
With anxiety on the rise tools like this can be helpful. Colorful stars keep this sheet interesting until you get to the end. Having a healthy attitude toward test taking is a helpful tool for success. Share your own helpful tools with the Brilliant Therapy team. Download...
This is a useful handout to give parents, grandparents, and caretakers. Check us out on facebook and our Gym5 facebook page as well. Download the PDF for My Child Avoids...
Visual awareness when looking at drop letters and tall letters is always a good skill to have. Kids can write with the unexpected tasks and increase awareness. Check out other writing e-books in our 'Resources' section. You will definitely find something you like! Download PDF for Drop...
Colored paper strip writing is an easy way to make learning fun. It can help with thought organization, communication, fine motor and visual skills, and both old and young clients like it. Other ideas for their use: Paper strips for birthday wishes, graduations, welcome banners, obstacle...
There are many ways to do matching activities, from socks to pictures and all of them can be fun, especially if they are a subject of interest. These types of activities are wonderful for visual memory, visual-perceptual skills, turn taking, attention to details and task...
This is a fun social visual cognitive skill building activity. Some specific skills this addresses are: sensory discrimination, visual processing, thought organization, working memory, writing, body awareness, communication, receptive language, pragmatic language, and following directions (receptive). DIRECTIONS: Have clients sit around in a circle and have 2...
This activity can be adapted for a parent, grandparent, or anyone special. Supplies: Light blue paper (butcher paper), pastels or paints and brushes, water to rinse brushes. Directions: =Have kids type or write out all the words except "DONUT". =Draw out the rings. (donuts) =Color around the inside ring of...