03 Oct Keyboard Quotes
You do not know what to do and you have a keyboarding kiddo coming any second for therapy! Here is a quick sheet you can print off and pick out a keyboard time and see how many quotes they can type before the timer goes...
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03 Oct Quick & Delicious
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...
26 Sep Smart Board Directed Draw: Fish
Directed drawing is a wonderful way to build skills. It can build visual attention, visual-perceptual, visual-motor, visual memory, thought organization, body awareness, attention span, social and grasp development skills. DIRECTIONS: Be slow and deliberate with presenting each line that is drawn. Demonstrate and say what you...
26 Sep Nature’s Visual Attention Task
Just a reminder to keep on the lookout for creepy crawling creatures. Kids will give more visual attention to this than many activities that you come up with, and they can facilitate great conversations! OPTIONS: Earthworms, chickens, goats, miniature horses, guinea pigs, and bearded dragons are...
26 Sep Boom Blast Sticks
This game is always a hit with kids, especially the middle schoolers. Fine motor, turn taking, and visual motor skills are some of the great skill benefits of this game....
25 Sep Desert Inspired Coloring Pages
Here are 2 desert inspired coloring pages to help build visual-motor skills. OPTION: You can also do this as a directed coloring task. All you have to do is call out what color each item should be colored or not colored. This way you can help...
25 Sep Same or Different Social Activity
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...
25 Sep Self Portrait Picture Activity
This idea has many variations. They can be book markers, gift cards, or obstacle course reminders in a home exercise program. Directions: Have kids make their own attitude pose or exercise move and then take their picture. Once you have secured a print, cut around the...
25 Sep Folding Fish
Folding Fish is a wonderful way to work on speech as well as fine motor strength, coordination, wrist AROM, and visual perceptual skills. Kids do better with a model (especially for drawing the fish body) and will improve dexterity and visual tracking up and down...
20 Sep Doodle Cat: Introduction to Doodling
We cannot expect everyone to just doodle. Here is a wonderful tool to assist with getting started on the basics. TIP: For beginning doodlers, introduce it like directed draw. (see video) Do each line and have clients copy you each time. SUPPLIES: 1 pencil, markers to add...