Occupational Therapists use puzzles to help patients develop fine motor skills, hand - eye coordination, and spatial skills.

Puzzles helps in improving cognition and visual spatial processing. The act of putting the pieces together requires concentration and improves short term memory and problem solving.

Home Based Activities

• Many behavioral problems occur at home due to sensory overload. .
• In order to ensure stable and steady progress for your child , there are various activities that can be done at home so as to see consistent progress. .
• Every child has a different diet which consists of specific therapeutic activities so before providing activities to the child, refer to the occupational therapist for the same.

TACTILE (TOUCH)

• 1. Different tactile mats
• 2. Fidgeting toys (stress balls , bendable figures , bubble fidget toy etc)
• 3. Sorting activities with sooji , maida , rice , sand , dry beans and use fingers to dig for objects and trace shapes.
• 4.Rubbing lotion
• 5. Hand painting
• 6. Finger painting

ORAL MOTOR

• 1. Blow candles / bubbles / paper/ whistle.
• 2. Blow in a cup of water with the help of straw
• 3. Blow a thermacol ball with straw
• 4. Give various textured food - crunchy or chewy foods.

PROPRIOCEPTIVE

• 1. Cycle pedalling
• 2. Weight bearing of hands
• 3. Jumping
• 4. Wheelbarrow walking
• 5. Climbing , lifting , pulling , pushing
• 6. One leg standing

VESTIBULAR

• 1. Swinging
• 2. Sing poems with actions
• 3. Walking in a straight line
• 4. Knee walking

AUDIO - VISUAL

• 1. Sing rhymes in front of the child.
• 2. Sensory music
• 3. Bright and dim lights to make shadows
• 4. Visual bottles with different material inside.
• 5. Animal sounds
• 6. Bells

DEEP PRESSURE

• 1. wrapping in blanket to provide light pressure
• 2. Joint compression

WRITING

• 1. Free hand scribbling
• 2. Strokes
• 3. Tracing on sand , maida , atta
• 4. Letters with finger painting

READING

1. Flash cards ( action words These are some of the home based activities that can be done at home for your child.

Handwriting

Handwriting is a skill that requires hand strength , hand manipulation, visual coordination, fine motor skills , gross motor and sensory skills.

How Occupational therapist can help with that :-

• 1. Develop hand strength and endurance
• 2. Improve skills of hand manipulation, rotation , transition .
• 3. Help with proprioceptive/ kinesthetic issues.
• 4. Ensure postural correction of child , desk , chair etc.
• 5. Choosing appropriate tools and equipments for the child.
• 6. Provide them meaningful activities in order to improve fine motor skills.
• 7. Developing perceptual and visual acuity that may hamper a child's capacity to properly use writing tools.
• 8. Helps in motor planning and stability of shoulder , elbow , wrist .

To know more , book an appointment at our clinic.