Crushing Paper Inside Palm: to Strengthen and Provide Sensory Input

Advertisements More Activities that Provide Deep Pressure (Proprioceptive) Sensory Input while Strengthening Intrinsic Hand Muscles…

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Promoting Figure-Ground Discrimination During Hand Activities

Advertisements Figure-Ground Discrimination is a visual-perceptual skill that helps a child to interpret what she sees; it is the ability…

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How to Make a Sensory Pegboard

Advertisements Between 12 and 18 months of age, babies develop greater visual-perceptual skills by using form boards, shape sorters, pegboards,…

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How to Provide Proprioception: Using Resistive Fine-Motor Activities

Advertisements Squeeze, Push, Pull! Activities that involve squeezing, pushing or pulling provide proprioceptive sensory stimulation to the hand joints and…

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Functional Vision Do-It-Yourself Activities

Advertisements What is Functional Vision? In my book From Flapping to Function: A Parent’s Guide to Autism and  Hand Skills,  I…

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What is a Sensory Modulation Disorder?

Advertisements Types of Sensory Processing Disorders  Understanding Sensory Processing Disorders (SPD) is complex because there are three primary diagnostic groups,…

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