As I wrote the last blog post, we also turned it into an insta-story (check out our instagram account) and while doing that I had ideas for ways to progress the activities we were talking about. Here are a few of those ways: Hang balls from strings. You can have the child stand facing the […]
Using Spots for Balance (and so much more…)
We recently had a child come in who needed a lot of work on balance (static and dynamic). In addition to the balance deficits, the following areas were also challenging: body awareness, weight shifting, single leg stance, motor planning, and visual and auditory processing. We were looking for an activity that could begin to work […]
Halloween Spider Web
In the spirit of Halloween we decided to revisit one of our previous activities that we have written about before. We laid down a tape spider web using floor tape and we are leaving it out all month! The great thing is that we can vary the way that we use it. Here are a few […]
Is Toe Walking Typical?
When your young child is just learning to stand or walk, you may see them occasionally go up on their tip-toes for a brief moment, then relax back down. This is typical, and is often used to allow for stability with newly acquired skills. The overall use of this; however, should progressively decrease over time. […]
Ambient and Focal Vision
Several of our PT’s recently took a continuing education course where they talked about the differences between focal and ambient vision. Focal vision is what you are looking directly at and can operate on its own. Ambient vision is what takes in everything going on around you and provides information back to your body so […]
Find the Bucket
We love collaboration with other providers. We are lucky enough to have an OT company that we reciprocally share space with. This allows us to pick their brains and them to pick ours. One day they were talking about using our platform swing and how to work on visual motor skills and this activity was […]
Feed the Woozle
Another game I have never played, but one of my therapists found a really fun way to use it to motivate one of our kiddos to work on stairs, and more specifically stairs while carrying things. You can take the general idea and use it for other activities you are trying to get kids to […]
Pipe Cleaner and Wikki Stick People
Kids can have fun creating people out of a ton of different materials. Two of the materials we use are pipe cleaners and wikki sticks. Areas it works on: Fine Motor Dexterity: This activity incorporates a lot of pincer grasping and finger isolation in order to push the wikki sticks onto the white board and […]
Duct Tape Tote and Wallet
As you can tell by reading my posts this week my nephew and I hung out over the weekend. Well, my mom had bought various colors and patterns of Duct Tape and we decided to get crafty making a gift for his mom and one for himself as well! We followed directions from these blogs […]