Water Fun for Hot, Summer Days
SmileMakers has a line of water squirter toys that can help your patients that need assistance in the area of fine motor skills, hand strengthening, and visual motor skills.
SmileMakers has a line of water squirter toys that can help your patients that need assistance in the area of fine motor skills, hand strengthening, and visual motor skills.
I’ve found a fun item that, at the very least, tackles 4 key developmental areas patients may find helpful during the holiday. Slime is an item that I use for sensory experience, fine motor, independent play, and distraction.
SmileMakers offers Sticker Play Scenes that can be used to work for many different areas of development. These multi-functional sticker scenes would be a great staple in the kit of early interventionists, occupational therapists, and speech therapists.
As children grow older and transition into a preschool classroom, they will need these fine motor skills to hold and use a crayon or pencil correctly and cut using scissors. All these skills you can begin working on now with fun and educational summer crafts.
Speech Therapists, Early Interventionists, Occupational Therapists, and Physical Therapists are given the task to work on developmental goals with their young patients. In order to achieve goals, they must encourage children during every session with the hope that the outcome is more the focus than the process.
As we enter the month of April and Autism Acceptance Month, it is so important that the public understand that people with autism may be different, but they are certainly not less. The more you get to know people on the spectrum the more you realize that their futures are limitless.