Gross motor skills are the abilities to use the big muscles of the body for standing, walking, jumping, running and more. We start to learn these skills from the very beginning. Babies learn from neck control to side turning, crawling, sitting, and standing. As the babies grow, … [Read more...]
Fine Motor Skills – Development, Activities, Checklist, and Tips
Fine motor skills are those movements we make through our small muscles of the hands. Kids start using fine motor skills from the early childhood. They start to grab everything nearby with their tiny hands like they approach towards rattle and try to grab it with the small hands. … [Read more...]
Sensory Tactile Activities
Sensory Tactile Activities - Tactile activities can be an important part of sensory diet or fine motor skill building program. Tactile activities are very helpful in problems like hand and finger awareness, attention, and fine motor planning. What is a tactile system? The … [Read more...]
Sensory Diet Activities
What is Sensory Diet? A "sensory diet" is a planned and scheduled activity program designed to meet a child's specific sensory needs. There are many types of sensory activities that are similar to eating a "main course" and are very powerful and satisfying. Hence the name … [Read more...]
Sensory Integration
Sensory Integration and Occupational Therapy- Sensory integration therapy is an integral part of occupational therapy. Occupational therapist practices, sensory integration (SI) mostly in the pediatric population. Sensory integration is nothing but a developmental process, … [Read more...]
