by Cara | Sep 14, 2018 | accommodations, bilateral integration, both hands, caregiver tips, clinic, coordination, crossing midline, dominant hand, downloads, fine motor, fine motor activities, fine motor coordination, for OTs, FREE, freebies, function, grasp, grasp development, handouts, hands, handwriting, helper hand, homeschool, Left-handed, motor skills, Occupational therapists, occupational therapy, OT, printables, resources, School OT, school therapy, special education, special needs, supporting, supporting special needs, switching hands, teacher, teachers, teaching, teaching successfully, therapist information, therapy, therapy tools, tips, writing
Please share: Many students with special needs have difficulty using both hands together. This skill is called BILATERAL INTEGRATION and is required for tasks like cutting paper and getting dressed. One hand is the ‘doer’ and the other hand is the...
by Cara | Feb 28, 2018 | Active kids, bilateral integration, both hands, coordination
Please share: Handwriting is so important to each of us. Our signature marks our unique impression of agreement or approval on a document. There have been many arguments lately on whether to teach our children the skill of cursive handwriting. While many feel...
by Cara | Feb 16, 2018 | Active kids, activity cards, ADHD, behavior, brain body connections, brain breaks, caregiver tips, caregivers, childhood stress, clinic, cognition, continuing education, development, eight senses, emotion, for OTs, FREE, freebies, helping caregivers, interoception, life skills, movement breaks, Occupational therapists, OT, parenting, resources, self-stimulation, senses, sensory, sensory processing, shopping, special needs, supporting special needs, teacher, Trauma
Please share: One of the biggest questions I receive as a pediatric OT is, ‘how can I tell the difference between sensory and behavior?’ Identifying whether it is sensory or behavior is much more complicated than you might think. In fact, my...
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