I love this recycled project to encourage fine motor skills, visual discrimination skills and letter recognition. It is inexpensive. Just save some bottle caps (these are all water bottle caps) and you need white circle stickers. Just make some word strips and match up the letters. This is a great make and take activity to […]
The Australian Occupational Therapy Journal published research on 240 grade 2 children. The researchers wanted to determine whether the three subtests of the Beery Buktenica developmental test of visuomotor integration predicted quality of handwriting across and within groups of boys and girls classified as proficient, at risk or non-proficient writers according to the Concise Assessment Scale […]
Ever wonder what else you could do with loom bands? Here are 5 suggestions that encourage fine motor skills, visual motor skills and hand strengthening (and none of them are bracelets)! Get all the directions at https://www.yourtherapysource.com/freeloombands.html [subscribe2]
Check out the latest ebook, Cut, Sequence, Paste and Draw – Alphabet and download the 3 page freebie for the letter ‘a’ picture at https://www.yourtherapysource.com/cutsequencedrawaz.html [subscribe2]
Psychological Science has published research on 9 month old infants reaction to tactile input. The parents sat the infant on their lap while the experimenter stroked the back of the infant’s arm with a paintbrush. The experimenter varied the rate of the brushstrokes among three defined velocities: slow, medium and fast (0.3, 3, or 30 […]
Download and print this free puzzle to test your visual discrimination skills. How many of each smile face can you find? You can get the freebie at https://www.yourtherapysource.com/freesmilefaces.html [subscribe2]
Download this bunny garland freebie to encourage eye hand coordination, fine motor skills and hand strengthening. You can get the freebie from Your Therapy Source at https://www.yourtherapysource.com/freebunnies.html
How cool is this project? It reminds me of a zentangle which I always find very calming to do. There are two ways to complete this activity to encourage visual motor skills, grading of movements and visual spatial skills. 1. Doodle Shape Stencils – Draw any random doodle all over a piece of paper with […]
I am so excited to announce this new electronic title – Tai Chi for Children. You can download some sample pages from the ebook at https://www.yourtherapysource.com/taichi.html. This excellent resource includes a delightfully illustrated story for children with all abilities: It describes the history of Tai Chi and some basic principles and movement patterns (from Tai Chi […]
Self regulated strategy development (SRSD) is an instructional model to teach writing strategies to students. SRSD has been researched and shown to result in significant and meaningful improvements in writing knowledge, writing quality, writing approach, self-regulation skills, and motivation. School based occupational therapists may focus on the actual skill of handwriting and also the […]