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Organization and Attention Challenges Related to Sensory Processing Disorders
Kids with sensory needs often times have organization difficulties. Sensory inattention is a real thing! They are distracted by their body’s need for sensory integration and are challenged to focus on tasks at hand due difficulties with inattention. We explain in our resource on sensory processing disorder chart, the various aspects and nuances of sensory…
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Teach Letters in Occupational Therapy Telehealth-Free Slide Deck
Teaching letters in distance learning? Working on handwriting in OT teletherapy? Well, one thing is for certain. Our recent virtual therapy slide deck to teach strait line letters was a popular one! That’s why I wanted to not only continue with that letter formation slide deck series (coming soon!) but I wanted to get this…
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Backward Letters? What to do…
Many children write backward letters and numbers when learning to write. This is typical handwriting and a normal part of learning letter formation. However, sometimes it can be hard to break this habit. Other times, children really struggle with reverse text in a way that they write upside down or flip letters. For older children,…
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Dinosaur Proprioception Activities
This dinosaur brain break activity is a set of free proprioception activities that provides heavy work with a dinosaur theme, making movement and proprioceptive input a fun way to address dinosaur -sized needs. Whether you are looking for heavy work activities for the kids to add to distance learning or heavy work activities for OT…
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Handwriting Accommodations at Home
For ages k-8th grade. Goes over sizing, orientation, reversals, and baseline orientation.
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Handwriting Grasp at Home
This post describes different types of handwriting grasps, easy DIY grippers to use if you don’t have one, and easy activities to develop grasp.
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Virtual Therapy Slide Deck to Teach Straight Line Letters
Teaching letter formation doesn’t need to be boring. Teach kids how to write letters by beginning with letters that have straight lines (horizontal and vertical lines) to make it developmentally appropriate. Today, I’ve got a free virtual therapy slide deck to teach straight line letters in occupational therapy virtual sessions. Help kids work on letter…
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More Movement Resources
AWESOME! Your free dinosaur proprioception activity cards are in your email inbox. But wait, would you like to add the benefits of heavy work to home programs, play, indoor activities, and outdoor fun? Click here to get 88 heavy work activities with 11 themes to add movement and proprioception activities to play, learning, and therapy…
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Brain Breaks
Here is a fun way to give your self a brain break… grab a dice and lets roll some movement…
