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Below you'll find a list of all posts that have been categorized as “visual skills”

Tweens Like To Play Too!

admin December 1, 2016arts and crafts, balance, bilateral coordination, board games, coordination, executive functioning, fine motor, gross motor, organizational skills, problem solving, social skills, tweens, visual skills Leave a Comment

Over the years, I have heard from parents of tweens and soon to be teens how tricky buying gifts for this age can be. Because …

Building Blocks of Play

admin November 23, 2016bilateral coordination, confidence, construction, creativity, executive functioning, fine motor, hape, hope learning toys, imagination, magnatiles, STEM products, tegu, visual skills, waldorf Leave a Comment

Building/Construction ToysThis is one of my favorite sections to complete each year. While there are several items that are always on there, I have included …

For The Budding Artist

admin November 22, 2016arts and crafts, bilateral coordination, coloring, confidence, creativity, fine motor, orb factory, pompoms, self esteem, social skills, STEM products, sticky mosaics, strengthening, visual skills Leave a Comment

One of my favorite things to recommend to families for gifts are arts and crafts kits or activity books. Not only are they great for …

Let’s Get Social

admin November 19, 2016attention, cooperative play, feelings, fine motor, games, klutz, matching, moon picnic, puzzles, social emotional, social skills, visual skills Leave a Comment

Social Emotional ToysIn the last couple of years, I have become more and more interested in finding products that help with social emotional learning. I’ve …

Game On!

admin November 18, 2016blue orange, confidence, eye hand coordination, family, fine motor, games, graphomotor, gross motor, peaceable kingdom, self esteem, social skills, visual skills Leave a Comment

Games make a great gift, especially if you are looking for gifts that will be good for the whole family. In a day and age …

What’s App-2016

admin September 14, 2016apps, dexteria jr, drawing, executive functioning, fine motor, graphomotor, grasping, iPad, letter recognition, LetterSchool, originator, spelling, stylus, visual skills Leave a Comment

One of questions I get quite often from parents, especially before a big trip, is “what apps do you recommend for my child?”. While there …

The (Pet) Doctor Is In!

admin April 26, 2016apps, executive functioning, eye hand coordination, fox and sheep, grasping, iPad, organization, problem solving, sequencing, story telling, visual skills Leave a Comment

It’s been a while since I last did a post on apps here. I think it might have to do with the fact that I …

Sometimes It’s Good To Manipulate

admin April 22, 2016bilateral coordination, confidence, creativity, eye hand coordination, fine motor, grasping, organization, planning, self esteem, social skill, strengthening, visual skills Leave a Comment

One of the most common goals I have to work on is improving hand strength with the kids I work with. Decreased grasp strength leads …

My Top 10 OT Tools

admin April 8, 2016cutting, discovery putty, eye hand coordination, fun and function, games, grasp, orb factory, scissors, sticky mosaics, strengthening, usborne, visual skills, zoom ball Leave a Comment

For those of you who aren’t occupational therapists, you may not realize that April is Occupational Therapy Month. It began in 1980 and was scheduled …

A Childhood Highlight

admin March 30, 2016attention, executive functioning, eye hand coordination, focus, graphomotor, hidden pictures, highlights, organization, puzzles, social skills, stylus, visual skills, visual tracking Leave a Comment

As many of you, I have a lot of childhood memories that make me smile. Some of them exist in some form today, but very …

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