Author: MarvelsourceOT

Many children with sensory needs have difficulty with regulating themselves in order to attend to instructional tasks. These children often appear to have high energy, are highly distracted, require much redirection. They often need support in order to help them …

Draw any shape you want, preferably of small to medium size. Cut out the shape, then whalah! Now you have a stencil that can be used as boarders to help for staying in lines while coloring! Be creative. Above you …

This is not simply an arts and crafts task. This is a multi-step occupation based activity. Child works with their “grown -up” to cut along the lines and paste together the pieces in number order. Before cutting, the child can …

Feel free to be creative. You can add numbers to the sections for some practice with sequencing. You can even lable the pieces with letters. As the saying goes, “The sky’s the limit “:) 🎉 Predominant OT skills: Bilateral coordination, …

Here’s a great activity for integrating many “OT” skills in one functional school based task. Materials: masking tape, construction paper, and Markers Be creative: Choose any letter you want, or any color patterns Have kids engage with the first letter …

Visual perceptual– worksheets Other skills – visual motor, fine motor, bilateral skills, etc.

OT skills Targeted: Visual perceptual/cognition-matching shapes Visual motor- tracing/cutting Fine motor- use of utensils for tracing/coloring Bilateral coordination skills: cutting and pasting Attention/concentration- Sitting to complete each step of a multistep/multicompenential task

So, have you ever worked with a child who had a very difficult time self regulating or attending to task. Try implementing music during session (or during a particular activity that attention is greatly needed at the moment i.e during …

Benefits/skills: Fine motor– tracing, Visual motor– tracing /cutting with scissors Cognitive– matching same images Visual perceptual– visual constancy: understanding that an image is the same whether it is smaller or larger. Visual closure: perceiving an image despite some parts of …

OT skills targeted include: –Bilateral hand use for cutting and pasting –fine motor and visual motor– tracing over each matching fruit –visual perceptual– form constancy (large shape and small shape, still the same figure) –Attention– sustained concentration to complete a …