🎃 Mini-Pumpkin Motor Activities Mini pumpkins you can find at your grocery store offer lots of opportunities for kids to practice balance, core strength and force modulation to stack them. Check out a few ideas in this little video. 🍁Fall Leaf Clothespin Activities Got kids that are working on body awareness, washing their bodies thoroughly, …
This activity includes heavy work or deep pressure input for body awareness, upper body strength and cross midline patterns. To grade up you can do small sets of these push ups and build up to more sequences such as repetitions of 3. Add a metronome and you are working the cerebellum –the part of the …
The Spring Chicken Workout is here! (For everyone new here I make these dice games with 6 exercises and I use them in person and tele-therapy sessions- you can roll a dice to play or just do the moves as you can!). Just a few benefits of these moves: -Chest openers for posture and breath …
If you are a therapist, you most likely see at least one kid who goes a million miles per hour. They can slow down but their focus is inconsistent and you are left with your hair frazzled wondering if you are getting any “therapy” done. You may have lots of therapy tools but what are …
Just this last month I got the sweetest Valentine’s card from a girl in the 4th grade. Let’s call her Liz. She had just graduated from occupational therapy. When we started working together, Liz had already done the Astronaut program (a vestibular program) with another therapist. The quarantine had just started and she was moving …
Asymmetrical Tonic Neck Reflex (ATNR): academic skills and eye-hand coordination Blog#6 Read More »
I have heard parents say “Oh, my kid is not sensory”. They have a family member who has autism and they think that a kid with sensory problems would have more obvious issues. Sensory processing problems are not always overt. We often cannot tell how much someone is exerting to manage daily activities. Sensory processing …
Touch Processing: Getting kids to feel comfortable in their own skin- Blog #3 Read More »
How to use deep pressure touch sensory activities to increase emotional regulation, focus and attention.
Some of you reading this blog may not be familiar with the term sensory processing so here is a brief introduction. You are here on this site most likely because you care about a child in your life. As an occupational therapist focusing on sensory processing, I see many kids in the clinic I work in. …
