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Activities, child, elementary school age, equipment, OT, Sensory, sensory motor, teenage, tween - middle school

Make a weighted notebook

You often hear therapists make a recommendation to incorporate some heavy work into a student's day, and to make it natural. Most older students have textbooks that are heavy as a natural heavy work task, but you may have some kids that you…

Activities, child, elementary school age, equipment, equipment, gross motor, lower extremity strengthening, Motor Planning, motor planning, OT, preschool, PT, sensory motor, teenage, toddler, tween - middle school

Making a Crash Pad

A crash pad is a big foam filled squishy mat that you can fall onto and you land on the squishy foam. Crash pads are great fun for kids who like a lot of movement and body input since they can roll around in the big foam nest. Kids need to always…

child, equipment, home program, OT, preschool, Printable, toddler, Toileting

Modifications for Potty Training

Your sweet toddler has shown all of the signs for being ready to potty train, and you are excited to get started when you realize they are going to fall right off (or in) the toilet. Toileting and potty training is often challenging with typical…

Activities, child, Chopstick activities, elementary school age, equipment, fine-motor, hand strengthening, Handwriting, in-hand manipulation, Motor Planning, OT, preschool

Chopsticks

Mature and refined grasp patterns, as well as in hand manipulation, require use of the small finger muscles, and they use the two sides of the hands separately. It can be challenging learning how to coordinate the pinky finger side of the hand…

equipment, essential oil, OT

The Easiest Way to Clean Toys

When working with little kids doing early intervention, I need to clean my toys after using them with a child. There are a couple of techniques that I use to clean them, depending on how many toys were used that day, what type of toy it is,…

foam shapes and squigs are great to put on the glass

Activities, child, Crossing Midline, equipment, fine-motor, Fun Foam, gross motor, Materials, Motor Planning, motor planning, OT, preschool, PT, Reach and grasp

Fun foam on the Mirror

One of my absolute favorite activities with young kids is playing with fun foam shapes on a mirror. It works well in the bathtub, shower, or on a glass door too. You spay the glass surface with water (great squeezing activity) and then the foam…

accessibility, baby, equipment, equipment, Product Review

Making Adapted Seating

I have been using coroplast for years to make things out of, and have used it to adapt seating, make clothespin games frames, make guinea pig cages, and to make other things around my house and therapy office. It is a corrugated plastic, so…

accessibility, Activities, ADL, adult, child, equipment, OT, Product Review, Resources

Adapting With Sugru

Have you heard of Sugru? It is an Occupational Therapist’s dream come true – really it is. These are the things that we dream about. Sugru is a mold-able rubber that dries in 24hrs, and is then very strong. It sticks to practically everything…

Activities, ADL, child, elementary school age, equipment, feeding, oral motor, OT, preschool, Product Review, teenage, toddler, tween - middle school

The WOW Cup is Really Cool

You see infomercials, and can’t believe all of the claims they have, so when I saw the WOW cup, I got it to test it out and see if it really did work. I have to say, the Wow Cup works, and it is really cool. It does not spill at all,…

Activities, equipment, equipment, featured guest, Product Review, PT, Technology, Therapy techniques

Go Baby Go Project gets little kids powered mobility

There is a Physical Therapy professor at University of Delaware named Cole Galloway who has a mission to get young children mobile, and uses ride on toys from Toys R Us. He modifies them to fit the child’s specific needs, and even incorporates…

Activities, equipment, fine-motor, Handwriting, OT, Product Review

Pencil Grips–Pros and Cons

Most kids do not need to use a pencil grip. I rarely recommend having a student use a special grip, and when I do recommend it, it means that the grip really does help. What are the determining factors for needing a pencil grip? The student…

Activities, equipment, fine-motor, Handwriting, OT, Product Review

Coban on a weighted pencil

When I was working on making weighted pencils, I bought some Coban (or generic Coban) to try out on the metal coupling nuts. I didn’t try it because the craft foam worked so well. I was reminded that I had the Coban, and so I tried it…

Activities, ADL, bimanual, child, dressing, elementary school age, equipment, Motor Planning, OT, Product Review, Resources, tying, visual perceptual

Practicing Tying Shoes with Loopers Laces

Occupational Therapists create stuff. It’s what we do. I am thrilled to share products that have been conceived and created by other OTs. Today’s product is Loopers Laces, which was created specifically to help with working on learning to…

equipment, oral motor, OT

The right bite feeding therapy tool

How many kids do you work with that try to stuff a whole huge cracker into their mouth? How many times have you been bitten when working on taking bites of food (never for me, but I have been bitten doing other oral motor activities). Ark…

Activities, equipment, fine-motor, Handwriting, OT, Product Review

Back to school Tran-Quill writing kit giveaway

Some people have started back to school, and others will be starting soon. We are starting back this week, so I thought that it would be the perfect time to share some information about the Tran-Quill writing kit, and to give one away to one…

Activities, child, elementary school age, equipment, fine-motor, Handwriting, OT, visual perceptual

Make word spacers out of popsicle sticks

I have many kids that I see for problems with their writing, and many times it is not the legibility of their letters that is the problem, it is the spacing of the words. I thought that if they could make their own spacers to use when writing,…

accessibility, equipment, OT, Product Review

Switchamajig ipad app and switch interface for fun switch toys

I was just introduce to this new switch interface which uses the ipad as a switch. The Switchamajig Controller lets you use your iPad's touch screen to replace up to six switches. It looks pretty cool for kids who have the control…

Activities, child, elementary school age, equipment, Motor Planning, OT, preschool, Range Of Motion, Reach and grasp, Sensory, sensory motor, toddler, tween - middle school, upper extremity strengthening

Hammock swing for strengthening

A hammock swing is wonderful for strengthening in many different ways. My favorite position in a hammock swing is prone with just the head and arms sticking out. This position forces weight bearing on the arms, and works on full upper body…

equipment, equipment, OT

A video on how to make Tri-wall

Triwall is cardboard that is 3 layers thick. In therapy we use it to make floor sitters and other positioning devices. It is nice and strong, and easy to cut and glue together. Here is a video I found on the web about how to…

equipment, oral motor, OT, Sensory

Oral Sensory Seeking and Vibration

Most of the kids that I work with that have oral sensory problems avoid oral stimulation, and avoid food. I just started seeing a young fellow that is the opposite of what I am used to. This little guy is a sensory seeker, and he seeks oral…

ADL, equipment, OT

Dycem: It's the stickiest

I haven’t used Dycem for years since I haven’t been in a clinic for years. When I work on my own and in other people’s houses, I tend to use whatever is available there. For those who don’t know what Dycem is, it is a sticky non-slip…

Make a weighted notebook

Making a Crash Pad

Modifications for Potty Training

Chopsticks

The Easiest Way to Clean Toys

Fun foam on the Mirror

Making Adapted Seating

Adapting With Sugru

The WOW Cup is Really Cool

Go Baby Go Project gets little kids powered mobility

Pencil Grips–Pros and Cons

Coban on a weighted pencil

Practicing Tying Shoes with Loopers Laces

The right bite feeding therapy tool

Back to school Tran-Quill writing kit giveaway

Make word spacers out of popsicle sticks

Switchamajig ipad app and switch interface for fun switch toys

Hammock swing for strengthening

A video on how to make Tri-wall

Oral Sensory Seeking and Vibration

Dycem: It's the stickiest

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