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Klaudia OT
เข้าร่วมเมื่อ 17 มี.ค. 2020
If your child’s occupational therapy services have been impacted by school closures please checkout the videos in this channel. The focus of these videos are motor activities that you can do at home to support your child’s development. I will try to add new videos each week.
I hope you find these videos helpful and stay healthy everyone!
I hope you find these videos helpful and stay healthy everyone!
Drawing Mat Man from Learning Without Tears
The Man Man Song from Learning Without Tears is a wonderful way to practice the following skills:
1. Pre-writing strokes
2. Body Awareness
3. Spatial Orientation
4. Combining parts into a cohesive whole.
You can draw Mat Man, using the wooden stick blocks from the program, or point to each body part while listening to the song lyrics.
Link to CD: shopping.lwtears.com/product/SING/products-by-type
Link to wood pieces: shopping.lwtears.com/product/WP/handwriting
1. Pre-writing strokes
2. Body Awareness
3. Spatial Orientation
4. Combining parts into a cohesive whole.
You can draw Mat Man, using the wooden stick blocks from the program, or point to each body part while listening to the song lyrics.
Link to CD: shopping.lwtears.com/product/SING/products-by-type
Link to wood pieces: shopping.lwtears.com/product/WP/handwriting
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Least to Most Prompt Hierarchy
มุมมอง 11K4 ปีที่แล้ว
A “response prompt” is assistance provided by an adult to elicit a child to make a correct action step while learning or engaging in an activity. There are several levels of prompts and they are identified to be least to most intrusive in a “prompt hierarchy.” Depending on someone’s training and experience, the prompt hierarchy may vary a bit. In general, the least intrusive prompt is always pr...
Handwashing Sequence
มุมมอง 1514 ปีที่แล้ว
A “response prompt” is assistance provided by an adult to elicit a child to make a correct action step while learning or engaging in an activity. There are several levels of prompts and they are identified to be least to most intrusive in a “prompt hierarchy.” Depending on someone’s training and experience, the prompt hierarchy may vary a bit. In general, the least intrusive prompt is always pr...
Building Mat Man
มุมมอง 8864 ปีที่แล้ว
The Man Man Song from Learning Without Tears is a wonderful way to practice the following skills: 1. Pre-writing strokes 2. Body Awareness 3. Spatial Orientation 4. Combining parts into a cohesive whole. You can draw Mat Man, using the wooden stick blocks from the program, or point to each body part while listening to the song lyrics. Link to CD: shopping.lwtears.com/product/SING/products-by-ty...
Make Your Own Play Dough to support fine motor skills and the tactile sensory system
มุมมอง 394 ปีที่แล้ว
Baking and cooking with kids is a great way to refine fine motor skills and have a multi-sensory experience (sight, smell, touch). Below is a simple play-dough recipe to try at home: 3 cups flour 1 and 1/2 cups salt 6 teaspoons cream of tartar 6 tablespoons oil 3 cups of water Extra choice: liquid water color or food coloring, glitter, and any smells like essential oils or cinnamon :) Using a m...
Tips and Activities for a functional grasp pattern for handwriting
มุมมอง 1064 ปีที่แล้ว
Activities that promote a functional grasp pattern for handwriting: 1. Crafts and games with clothespins, tongs, tweezers, and eye droppers 2. Use a spray bottle for crafts or to water plants 3. Pinch small beads out of play dough or putty 4. Break crayons in half or use small golf pencils when coloring/writing 5. Insert coins into a piggy bank 6. String beads or pasta 7. Paint with Q-tips 8. L...
Functional Sorting-Food Edition
มุมมอง 924 ปีที่แล้ว
For this activity select 2-3 food items (e.g. crackers, candy, fruit, veggies, etc.) and place them all in one bowl or on one plate. For each food item provide an additional bowl or plate and have the child sort the food items by a category. Categories can include colors, size of food items, textures, brands, or sort them by numbers. In this video we talk about crossing the midline which is ver...
Coloring on a vertical surface
มุมมอง 1794 ปีที่แล้ว
Take any paper and pencil activity and tape the paper onto a vertical surface (e.g. wall, fridge, etc.) or tape the paper underneath a chair or child sized table to do the activity. Doing paper and pencil activities on a vertical surface prompts fine motor control and an ideal pencil grasp. Listed below are wonderful visual-motor (hand-eye coordination) activities for kids to do that will help ...
Around the world gross motor movement game
มุมมอง 1204 ปีที่แล้ว
Pick four exercises and your favorite song. Start on one side of the room and do an exercise for 10-30 seconds and switch to the next wall. Repeat until you have done all four exercises. This is a great movement activity to do as a break or prior to doing a sit down activity at a table. To decrease the challenge do each exercises for 5-10 seconds at each wall. You can also start doing an exerci...
Types of scissors and how to teach scissor skills
มุมมอง 5724 ปีที่แล้ว
These are the types of scissors that are shown in this video: Standard Scissors: www.target.com/p/fiskars-pointed-tip-kids-scissors-red/-/A-75573706 Maped Koopy Spring-Assisted Scissors: www.amazon.com/Maped-Spring-Assisted-Educational-Scissors-470249/dp/B00ZCK8NNY Peta Self-Opening Scissors: www.walmart.com/ip/Peta-Self-Opening-Scissors/36319388 PETA Easi-Grip Kids Scissor (loop): www.target.c...
Cotton Ball Race Movement Activity
มุมมอง 2464 ปีที่แล้ว
This cotton ball race is a fun movement activity that incorporates gross motor skills, fine motor skills, motor coordination, and heavy work for regulation. To make it less challenging use a shorter distance. To make it more challenging: use a longer distance, place obstacles in the way, make a road or boundary with tape, and make the road zig-zag versus straight.
Stringing for Bilateral Coordination
มุมมอง 1314 ปีที่แล้ว
Great activity to promote bilateral coordination, hand dexterity and manipulation skills, and you can incorporate academic skills by threading objects into patterns. To decrease the challenge: Use large blocks, shapes, or pasta to thread. Decrease the number of objects threaded Thread onto a sturdy object like a pipe cleaner To increase the challenge: Use smaller objects to thread Use a thin st...
Pinching Stickers onto Name
มุมมอง 504 ปีที่แล้ว
- Letter identification - Letter formation (please use both uppercase and lowercase letters) - Crossing Midline - Pinching - Hand-eye coordination - Stickers Print or write the child's name (or the child can practice writing it!) on a sheet of paper. Peel the stickers from the pad and stick them onto the letters. To decrease the challenge: Start with just the first letter of the child's name an...
Animal Walks
มุมมอง 784 ปีที่แล้ว
Weight Bearing for hand and arm strengthening - Check! Motor planning and coordination- Check! Heavy work for regulation- Check! Super fun- Check! Print out pictures of animals or look them up on Google and try to walk like them across the room or house. To decrease the challenge do less animals walks and walk across a shorter distance. To increase the challenge do more animals walks, increase ...
Arm Weight Bearing Activity
มุมมอง 7564 ปีที่แล้ว
Weight Bearing Activities through the arms promote the following: 1. Increase bone density and strength 2. Strength hands, wrists, and shoulders for increased stability and control in preparation for other activities with our hands such as: cutting, drawing, writing, shoe typing, etc. For this activity you can use a chair, couch, or an exercise ball. Pick a toy to manipulate like a puzzle. Have...