Runner Boy is a great game for line awareness, visual-processing, and visual-motor skill building. OPTIONS: Letter School is another app that is highly recommended by therapists. WARNING: Beware that electronics should be limited especially for kids under 5 years of age....
Cards can be used so many different ways; magic tricks, building card houses, hide and seek cards, and card games. TIPS: Make if fun and engaging and the brain will make more meaningful pathways. Here is a pdf to get you started. Download PDF for Card Games...
This task covers a multitude of skills and provides great sensory input (smell, touch, tip prehension, taste, visual, and auditory). Some of the skills it utilizes are grasp, proprioception, strength, problem-solving, impulse control, and it can work on sensory avoidance. SUPPLIES we used: marshmallows, red licorice...
This is what you want to do with kids that need to learn about tying their shoes. It is the first part of the task, tying a knot and it is wonderful because of the repetition component of this task. SUPPLIES: Ribbon pieces, tongue depressor stick...
What a wonderful easy to make activity. This works on visual perception, visual processing, visual memory, cognition, grasp (if you time client placing them in front of themselves and picking them back up), visual attention to a task, writing (if they write down each object...
DIY Brock String requires only approximately a 4 foot long string, 4 beads and an optional paper clip that can be used to hold the string with the outstretched hand. Tie the ends of the piece of string together after you have strung on the...
Kids and parents love this colorful activity! These work great with our monster face that is attached to a facial tissue box. Print out the Monster face and cards and you are ready for therapy! OT Adaptions: Make cards that have animals on them and have kids...
If you like these activities, you will love our I Spy eBook! Some of the pages can be great for TBI clients who struggle with working memory or visual strategies such as using thier non-dominant hand to help locate or remember visual areas on the page...
This is a very adaptable template that can serve many goals. OPTION: Try taping it to the wall outside and use small darts and see if you can get one into the Gumball Machine. PT: Each time kids complete a task they get to add a sticker...
Oh ya! Snow is loaded with sensory memories and this can keep kids interest by having them reach inside the bin and pull out items. SUPPLIES: small rubber erasers or items to be retrieved and fake snow that can be purchased on line OPTIONS: =Have clients pull out...