Intervention Using a Sensory Approach: Sensory Motor Activities
Play common children’s games for coordination/leisure, such as hopscotch or Simon Says.
Visual Perception Intervention: Activities
Use worksheets/perceptual motor booklets that are commercially produced to promote proprioception, figure ground, and eye-hand coordination.
Intervention Using a Sensory Approach: Sensory Motor Activities
Create an obstacle course out of the classroom furniture.
Intervention Using a Sensory Approach
Providing tactile, visual, and auditory stimulation and combining them into handwriting tasks often help children remember the activity.
Visual Perception Intervention: Activities
Reproduce designs w/variations so that child can learn that a circle is a circle even when it’s small or in a different location on the page.
Intervention Using a Sensory Approach: Named Activities
Animal Walks: Activities such as Rabbit Hop, Crab Walk, Elephant Walk encourage imitation, motor planning, strengthening, laterality, and directionality as well as body position in space.
Intervention Using a Sensory Approach: Named Activities
I Got Rhythm: Encourage rhythmic patterning and flow to promote tactile/kinesthetic awareness. Perform with both extremities together. (Writing has rhythmic movements, whether forming letters or connecting them together.)
Visual Perception Intervention: Named Activities
Look at This: Follow a moving target such as a ball, light, or bubbles. These activities help with visual attention to a task as well as work on visual tracking, pursuit, and targeting skills.
Visual Perception Intervention: Named Activities
Follow Me: This activity encourages the development of one-handed movements and those crossing the midline of body.
Visual Perception Intervention: Activities
Use a chalkboard to encourage free movement patterns w/resistance, and then allow a transition from the chalkboard ( vertical surface)to paper.
