This handout should give you many ideas as to what you can use to provide useful matching challenges. Tip: With car emblems, just grab pictures from the internet and then match them to pictures of cars or descriptions of them. I used the car emblems with...
The strategies here are evidence-based and have been effective for many children. You can have kids eating adult foods such as cream cheese and stewed peppers. These are some of the strategies that we found that worked. NOTE: The approach taken is just as important as...
Balancing fun is what this is. Building body awareness and visual-motor skills and so much more. Speech Option: Place index cards on the beam and when the student walks on top of them, they will have to do a move, pose, read a word, that is...
Try introducing this like Follow The Leader. Kids love to imitate and learn to lead this way. Here are 21 ways to use a line for therapy. Brave summer camp OT: You can even trace your finger up the crease of a cactus. Go slowly. It is...
Fun to dream about and create mental focus all in one task. You can make it more difficult by having kids make stripes and patterns on the year number. Download the PDF for New Year's Goals: Fireworks...
Mr. Lightbulb is where the practitioner can jot down what the kids should remember when they are writing above. For the auditory memory challenged client, this can be helpful. You may write down; spaces between words, or "y" is a drop letter. This way the client...
Now is the time to educate those parents and teachers who need to know this information. Give them this handout and they can choose from the list. Simple and effective. Download the PDF for Alerting Activities List...
Teachers really like to have a list to refer to that helps them remember what types of supports they can try to assist students with their sensory needs. This is one that also has some blank space so you can write in any particular ones...
If you are able to do it with your clients the first time or demonstrate each workout element, they will enjoy it and put more energy into the workout. Emotions often are stressed with transitioning between environments, so if kids can know that as soon...
If you are in home health or doing work in rehab, this can be a useful handout to those who need to feed themselves but have difficulty coming up with something easy and healthy to make. Here are 8 quick easy recipes to share. Try making...