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What you Need to Know About a Thumb Wrap Grasp?
If you’ve worked with kids on handwriting skills, then you’ve probably seen a thumb wrap grasp at one time or another. Also known as a crossover grasp, a cross thumb grasp, a thumb wrap grasp, (or other descriptive names), a thumb wrap grasp is just that: a holding the pencil with the thumb wrapped around…
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Easy Fine Motor Precision Activities
Helping kids develop and strengthen fine motor skills is essential for functional tasks, and this resource on fine motor precision activities supports that development. Here, we are addressing what fine motor precision means and specific activities to do with kids to help with grasp manipulation, dexterity, and graded movements like managing a zipper, buttons, and…
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DIR Floortime and Floor Play
Have you heard of DIR Floortime as a tool for helping children thrive and achieve their greatest potential? Occupational therapy professionals often use Floortime, or the DIRFloortime (or Floortime for short) as one of the tools in their therapy toolbelt. The fact is that floor play for infants, babies, and toddlers is so effective in…
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Acorn Activity for Learning Vocabulary Words
This acorn activity is an old one on our website, but it’s still so much fun! In the Fall months, acorns can be found all over in many forests and lawns, and here we are showing a creative way to use acorns to support learning vocabulary words…BUT, you could apply this idea to use acorns…
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Dinosaur Free Printable For Visual Perception
If you know a kiddo that loves all things dinosaurs, than this dinosaur free printable is for you! It’s a visual perception activity designed to develop and support visual perceptual skills such as visual discrimination, form constancy, visual closure, and other visual processing skills (visual tracking for one!) To grab this free printable dinosaur activity,…
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Container Baby Syndrome
If you are a new parent, then you have probably heard that tummy time is important for your baby, but it’s so important to process the concept of container baby syndrome. In this blog post, we are covering container syndrome, what this means, and what you can do to support your most precious little one.…
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Teach Kids How to Blow Their Nose
Want to know how to teach kids to blow their nose so kids can blow their stuffy noses on their own? Many times, we see kiddos with booger-y, runny noses that don’t know how to blow their nose. They might not know how to blow their nose or even how to hold a tissue. Blowing…
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Sensory Processing Disorder Chart
Did you know that sensory processing disorder can be broken down into several aspects of “sensory” based on considerations that you see in sensory challenges? Here, you’ll find a sensory chart covering these sensory processing attributes to better explain the vastness of SPD. You’ll also want to check out our resource containing a sensory processing…
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Life Skills – Cooking Activities
Life skills-cooking does not mean learning to make gourmet meals. It means meal preparation to survive. No teenager should go off to college without the means to cook Ramen, macaroni and cheese, cereal, and a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. Add pizza and Taco Bell to their meal plan, and voila, a complete teenage diet!…
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Types of self control
Did you know there are several types of self-control that impact the way we act, behave, speak, and move? These types of control impact how we learn, communicate with others, and function in our daily tasks. There is more to self control than controlling impulses and self-regulation. Understanding these various differences can make a difference…
