The Recycling Occupational Therapist

Friday, May 16, 2014

Pulling Resistive Shapes Apart.....

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Connecting the 2 shapes together works on hand strengthening, sequencing and motor planning skills. But taking them apart is also grea...
Wednesday, May 14, 2014

Vertical Activity

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 I am always thinking about ways to promote posture, reaching skills and visual attention with vertical activities. This sturdy board is s...
Friday, May 9, 2014

Sensory Toy without Batteries!

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I had a wonderful time presenting at the Massachusetts Early Intervention Conference yesterday. I was exploring the vendor booths and ment...
Wednesday, April 30, 2014

Discriminating Coins and Stringing Donut Shapes

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Some of my clients  are unable to discriminate coins from other round objects. So I decided to work on this basic visual discrimination sk...
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Wednesday, April 16, 2014

Teaching How to Zip

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I have been thinking about how to teach zipping better.  Many children and adults learn to pull up the slider when the 2 ends are connected ...
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Tuesday, April 15, 2014

Deflated Ball is Great for the Wiggles

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 I found a deflated ball in the storage closet at work. It wasn't quite deflated enough to sit on so I found a bicycle pump pin to ins...
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Tuesday, April 8, 2014

Pushing for Sensory Input

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Here are 2 very different activities that both involved using a very large plastic container with a hole cut into the lid.Both...
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