occupational therapy ideas

June 8, 2005

Hey, I finally got the WorkJobs book. I found a

workjob with various nuts glued to a piece of

wood to screw in bolts. The thing is I think this

will be very boring for my Allie Kat. Anyone have

any fun ideas of how to help her learn to

screw/unscrew, her hand skills are still very

weak.

TIA,

Debi

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June 9, 2005

sick of me yet? *grin*

while you're at the dollar store, get some cotton balls and some

fabric " pom poms " in the craft section for blowing.

i found several sets of tongs at yard sales and we picked up different

items w/ tongs to increase fine motor. different tongs require a

different amt of squeezing, you see, and you have to adjust your

squeeze to pick up a cotton ball or a pom pom or a hard wooden bead.

There is a tong that they sell at hardware stores here that is

designed to separate coffee filters. It's short, and rubber tipped on

the ends. It fits INSIDE a jar, so you can have a tong activity

inside a jar after you open it.

June 9, 2005

sick of me yet? *grin*

while you're at the dollar store, get some cotton balls and some

fabric " pom poms " in the craft section for blowing.

i found several sets of tongs at yard sales and we picked up different

items w/ tongs to increase fine motor. different tongs require a

different amt of squeezing, you see, and you have to adjust your

squeeze to pick up a cotton ball or a pom pom or a hard wooden bead.

There is a tong that they sell at hardware stores here that is

designed to separate coffee filters. It's short, and rubber tipped on

the ends. It fits INSIDE a jar, so you can have a tong activity

inside a jar after you open it.

June 10, 2005

It is of an OT issues and often under spatial and eye hand

coordinations. Many us have of some movement issues and so it is also

seen in the handwriting of us too. we often lack where our bodies are

in space and when writing it is of the same to understand excatly

where the letters are in space too. What has helped one little girl is

taking 2-3 grade lined paper and highlighting the bottom and top lines

to define the space with a navy blue or dark color and then we take of

yellow and do the slash lines for her to know of the middle place. I

to teached her the lines are a house and the space under the yellow

line is the basment of the house and that is usually where children

play and the main or upper floor is where grown ups to be cleaning and

sometimes the teenagers are in both because mom always aske the teens

to check on the little ones. I to teach her that some little children

are shouters and so the (.) is the shout that goies up to the mom such

as letter i,j, and some children are so active they jump through the

basement floor and when they hear mom coming they try to get back up

such as letters jgypq. and so I to teach her how to place the letters

onto the paper according to the age so to speak of the pretend letter

family. This has helped her greatly to understand letter placement.

Some of us are not good at transfering what we see to our own paper

and need actually taught how and where, some with autism are excellant

at transfering everythngs we see in great detail and often can be of

great artists, some like my son struggle holding the pencil and or

writing letters and does use tools very stiff and oddly and struggles

with transfering things but he is of a great artist so while

challenged he is also gifted in the same areas.

Sondra

In Autism_in_Girls , " Debi " <fightingautism@y...> wrote:

> Do you think tongs really help with writing? I ask because she seems

> to have motor strength for things like tongs, but then when she tries

> to write her stroke is all over the place. She's got glasses and

> writes with them off and on. I don't think it's strictly a vision

> tracking issue because she doesn't wanna hold the pencil in tripod,

> either. I keep thinking if we could just zero in on the specific

issue

> we could work on it, but as with so many things, autism is never just

> one issue.

>

> Debi

June 10, 2005