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...
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...
Check these out! This total body moving is great for body awareness! Kids pull up on the rope handles to keep the monster feet secured to their own. ST: Try having kids answer questions or talk while they are monster walking around....
Sidewalk obstacle courses are easy to make and fun to do for all ages. If you are setting one up indoors, you may want to use colored tape rather than chalk to mark out your course. Your course can improve, visual processing, visual tracking, balance, sensory...
This is an eye catcher and can awaken the sleepy ones with the tinkling sound of bells. Great for auditory dominant kids too. Speech therapists will be more likely to follow the rules emphasizing turn taking amidst auditory distraction....
Here is a favorite that can be used in many different ways. I used a discarded cardboard grid from a game, but you can use a carpet knife on cardboard from a box, scissors cutting a cereal box, or make your grid from card stock...
This is a wonderful game to recommend to parents to play with kids that struggle with visual perception and visual attention to task. Great for adults as well as 4 year olds. It can also be adapted initially if it is too difficult. Development opthamologist's use...
This game can be challenging, but it is adaptable and will work for TBI, Autism, and other client populations. You can show the solution card and have clients put the puzzle together or show it to them briefly and then have them try to figure it...
It is kind of like a sun catcher. It is certainly an eye catcher that works on visual motor and perceptual skills, fine motor coordination, and line awareness as the kids have to place the spangles inside the space You can do this on clear contact...