Starfish Therapies

A pediatric therapy company operating in San Francisco and the greater Bay Area. We provide physical, occupational, speech and aquatic therapy services in the most beneficial and convenient setting for you and your child, including our clinic, currently located in Burlingame, your home, school or daycare.

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Coordination Round-Up

August 6, 2020 by Stacy Menz

This round-up is a work in progress of our posts on how movement develops and is learned, as well as areas of movement challenge for kids. These concepts can be applied to babies first learning to move as well as older kids who are learning new skills. We also look at more complex skills and break them down. Make sure you book mark this post and check back as we continue to add to it!

Learning Movement:

  • Stages of Motor Learning (and strategies to improve acquisition of motor skills)
  • Overview of Motor Control
  • The Pieces of Motor Planning
  • Motor Planning 101
  • Maximizing How Kids Learn Movement
  • Practice Makes Perfect
  • Repetition and the Beauty of Redo
  • Muscle Memory and Movement
  • More Please – Repetition for Skill Mastery
  • Fine Tuning Motor Control
  • Furniture Glider Fun – Working on Motor Control
  • 3 Tips to Encourage the Non-Preferred Side
  • 3 Cues for Movement
  • Grading Muscle Control

Skills:

  • Transitional Movements
  • Skipping
  • Galloping
  • Hopscotch
  • Bike Riding
  • What Does Your Child Need to Learn to Ride a Bike?
  • Learning How to Ride a Bike
  • How to Practice Bike Riding Without a Bike
  • Weight Shifting for Kids with Coordination Challenges
  • Weight Shifting and Trunk Elongation
  • Using a Hula Hoop for Weight Shifting
  • Ideas to Encourage Standing Weight Shift
  • Find the Bucket
  • Activities to Increase Coordination
  • Jumping Jacks
  • Practicing Underhand Throwing
  • Maintaining Supination for Underhand Throwing
  • Practicing Overhand Throwing
  • Dribbling a Ball
  • Ball Dribbling
  • Practicing Catching
  • Early Kicking Skills
  • Tips for Kicking

 

Autism:

  • Autism and Gross Motor Skills
  • Motor Skills and Autism

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Our family moved to the bay area 6 years ago, and Starfish Therapies have been a part of our family ever since. Everyone at the clinic is caring and warm. The owner always looks for ways to improve the clinic and the services provided. The therapists are patient, enthusiastic, and know how to motivate the kids to do their best. Even after moving more than an hour away from the clinic, we kept going back to Starfish for intensive therapy sessions every summer! We cannot thank Starfish Therapies enough for helping my daughter to get stronger and to become more independent over the years!”

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  1541 Old Bayshore Highway
  Burlingame, CA 94010

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