Posts Tagged ‘finemotorskills’
OT Life Hack – Felicity
What does Felicity do to chill and relax whilst at home?
Read MoreOT Life Hack – Ellen
Find out what our Sensior OT, Ellen gets up to when she wants to relax whilst at home.
Read MoreOT Week 2022!
This year we are looking at “Lift up your everyday”. Watch out this week for our team’s messages to you all about how they chill when at home.
Read MoreSOS – how to blow your nose!
SOS – how to blow your nose! This is definitely a very challenging task for our SPD children and there are some very good reasons why they cannot blow their nose. The steps to blowing a nose: The sensation of acknowledging the nose is full or stuffy Holding the tissue Instead of sniffing, the feeling…
Read MoreBalance Activities
Balance activities – we need good balance to enable us to take part in daily living skills, sports, games and playing with others safely without causing injury (using the protective responses). Balance skills include: core strength gross motor skills visual motor skills proprioceptive input vestibular input What is static and dynamic balance Both static and…
Read MoreAutumn Newsletter – Coming Soon!
Our Autumn Newsletter will be coming out soon and there are lots of good ideas on the horizon to help our families and schools so keep an eye out for it in your in-box. Don’t forget to add yourself to our mailing list if you have not done so already. https://www.treetopsoccupationaltherapy.co.uk/join-mailing-list/ Also keep an eye…
Read MoreA very happy little girl
We can also see the improvements your daughter has made. She is really blossoming! It is also great to hear how much she is becoming more tolerant of the calming activities and especially asking for hand/leg squeezies. Brilliant!
Read MoreLetter and number reversals
Letter and number reversals – it is not unusual for young children to reverse their letters and numbers when they learn to read and write. However, reversals and poor handwriting could be due to the child being unable to: recall the way to record a letter or number what the letter or number looks like…
Read MoreTraining Testimonial – North Yorkshire
We hope the sensory diets help your pupils to sit and concentrate whilst in lessons. We are confident you will see the difference over the weeks ahead.
Read MoreTraining Testimonial – North Yorkshire
Fantastic to hear you are already starting to implement many of the examples we gave you during the training. Keep up the great work!
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