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Outdoor Play

Posted By Mia Pearn,
03/03/2023
Every parent hopes for their child/ren to grow up healthy and strong. One of the easiest and most effective ways of supporting children's physical development is through engagement in outdoor activiti...

5 Fun Ways to Use Theraputty or Play-Doh

Posted By Stephanie Schultz,
03/03/2023
Theraputty and play-doh are great resources for developing children's fine motor skills, including hand and finger strength, grasp, and precise movements. Fine motor strength and skills...

Awareness of Personal Space

Posted By Ching Yan Siu,
24/08/2022
For young children, friendships are often formed based on who is physically closest to themin the playgrounds. However, friendships slowly become more reciprocal as children startdeveloping the sense ...

Emotional Regulation

Posted By Emily Newbold,
03/09/2020
Emotional regulation is a very large part of our role as Occupational Therapists, and it is often raised as an area of concern by parents and teachers/educators alike. Emotional regulation is...

Handwriting

Posted By Emily Newbold,
23/06/2020
Occupational Therapy is often recommended by teachers for children who are having difficulty with handwriting. Handwriting is often an obvious visual sign that a child is having some difficulty with...

Motor Planning

Posted By Kim Guess and Sarah Hickey,
30/09/2019
Motor Planning   Motor planning is part of a group of skills that help us move our body the way we want to. This includes the upper limbs and hands (fine motor), body (gross motor), mouth and ton...

Visual Spatial Relationship & How is it Improved?

Posted By Kim Guess and Sarah Hickey,
09/06/2019
Do you know a child that reverses letters? Bumps into people? Or has poor organisational skills? They may have difficulty with visual spatial relations.   What is Visual Spatial Relationship? ...

Implications of Having Low Tone and How to Improve it

Posted By Kim Guess and Sarah Hickey,
08/04/2019
Muscle tone is important for everything we do with our bodies including gross motor activities such as sports and running and fine motor activities such as handwriting and eating. Having adequate...

Sensory Integration: Tactile Activities

Posted By Sarah Hickey and Sabrina Smart,
29/01/2019
Sensory integration activities are fun and creative, and are an important part of a child’s intellectual, social, and emotional development; the development of a positive self-esteem; positive...

Executive Functioning

Posted By Sarah Hickey and Sabrina Smart,
18/11/2018
Executive functions are a set of three cognitive skills, namely: Flexible attention / cognitive ability Working memory Inhibitory control All three are interlinked and influence each...