A while ago we did a post on how to progress dribbling a playground size ball starting with two hands and working down to one hand while walking. Here is a video also explaining the process also: Another way we have worked on dribbling a ball is for kids that have a hard time understanding […]
Maintaining Supination for Underhand Activities
I know we recently talked about practicing underhand throwing, and as a result, as we were working on the skill with one of our kids recently, we realized that they knew what they were supposed to do but they weren’t able to maintain their arm in a supinated (palm up) position as they went into […]
Practicing Underhand Throwing
We recently talked about how to work on and practice overhand throwing with kids, and how to work on catching. Now we are going to talk about underhand throwing. A lot of the same principles that we talked about in the above two posts work in terms of cueing and how to progress or breakdown […]
Practicing Throwing Overhand
Last week we talked about practicing catching in this post! Some of the same ideas are going to be applicable. You want to consider what ball you are asking the child to throw with. You are also going to want to consider the distance you are starting out at. In addition, underhand and […]
Practicing Catching
Working on catching can be challenging for some kids (we will talk about throwing also, and some of the things I am about to say here will also apply). Besides having to have the strength, and coordination, and the reaction time, they also have to focus on the activity and visually attend to the ball. […]
Carnival Games
Are you working on ball skills with any of your kids? Looking for ways to mix it up? At one of our recent group sessions, we had the kids play ‘Carnival Games.’ They were working on the same skills but we changed the context and to them, it was a whole different ball game (pun […]
Dribbling a Ball
We were recently working on ball dribbling skills with some kiddos. They had been practicing them off and on for a while but were still finding it hard to dribble the ball while walking down the hallway. So, we decided to spend one whole session devoted to bouncing the ball and progressing this skill. To […]
A Multi-Tasking Activity
One of our OT’s was so excited last week to show us the new activity she was doing with a few of her kiddos. She had just started it so she hasn’t had time to embellish it for pictures and make it look pretty! Also, we had to wrangle one of our other OT’s in […]