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Visual Processing and Visual Perceptual Skills: What’s the Difference?
Visual processing and visual perceptual skills are essential for learning, movement, and daily functioning, but they are not the same thing. Educators and therapists often use these terms interchangeably, yet they describe different parts of how the brain makes sense of what we see. Understanding this difference helps professionals identify challenges and support students more […]
The Importance of Visual Memory Skills in Students
Visual memory plays an important role in how students learn, remember, and understand the world around them. From reading and spelling to copying from the board or recalling visual details from lessons, strong visual memory helps students store and retrieve information efficiently. When this skill is weak, learning can feel slow, confusing, and frustrating. What […]
FREE Visual Memory Activity
This free visual memory activity is an easy way to strengthen your students’ visual processing, memory, and attention skills. It is a simple, no-prep download you can use in the classroom, therapy room, or at home. Download the freebie at the end of this post. It includes sample pages from the full Visual Memory Grids […]
Visual Processing and Autism: Bottom-Up Processing Explained
Understanding how students with autism process visual information can help teachers and pediatric therapists better support learning and participation. A recent research article published in the Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders (Huang et al., 2025) explored how visual processing and autism are connected, specifically how autistic individuals handle local details versus the overall big […]
Help Students Build a Calm Brain – Free Printable
When children understand how their brains work, they gain a powerful tool for success, at school, at home, and in life. Instead of feeling frustrated by big emotions or unexpected reactions, they learn that these moments come from how their brains are wired to protect them. These Calm Brain resources teach students how to notice […]
Understanding the Emotional Intelligence Brain: How the Amygdala Shapes Student Behavior
When students seem to “snap,” shut down, or lose control, it is easy to assume they are being defiant or disrespectful. In reality, many of these reactions come from automatic processes inside the emotional intelligence brain, the system that helps us identify emotions, read social cues, and regulate behavior. At the center of this system […]
Exercise While Sitting – Arms in Motion Song FREE PDF
We all know kids need movement but sometimes maybe we don’t want a huge class disruption. Or maybe we need an inclusive brain break so all students can participate. The Arms in Motion Song allows your students to exercise while sitting. It is the perfect seated or standing brain break to help students exercise, refocus, […]
Task Initiation Strategies: How to Help Students Start Their Work
When students struggle to begin assignments, the issue is often more than reluctance. It can reflect difficulty with task initiation, an executive function skill that allows learners to start a task efficiently and independently. For some students, beginning work is the hardest part of learning. By understanding the barriers to task initiation and using research-based […]
Student Refusing to Do Work?
Every teacher has met them: the students who shut down. Arms crossed. Head down. Blank stare at the paper. A quiet “I can’t” or complete silence when you prompt them to start. At first glance, it looks like defiance. But what if that refusal is really a clue? With the right approach, we can decode […]
Pumpkin Dice Game Free Printable PDF
Bring some fall fun into your classroom, therapy session, or home with this Pumpkin Dice Game Free Printable PDF! This playful activity encourages movement, coordination, and focus, all wrapped up in a seasonal theme. Kids roll the dice, follow the directions, and complete silly or skill-based actions that promote both learning and fun. Download your […]