Basic Assistive Device Ideas- Assistive Devices, independent living aids, and adaptive equipment, can help an individual live more independently. It may also make your job as a caregiver easier and more enjoyable.
Basic Assistive Devices for Self-Care – An assistive device is any piece of equipment that can be used to help make daily activities easier to perform. This may include recommendations for bath benches and AAC devices.
Body Awareness- The ability to understand where our bodies are in space and how our bodies move. When individuals have difficulties with body awareness, they may appear clumsy, uncoordinated or have delays in motor skill development.
Calming Activities– A calming strategy is a self-regulation tool that can be taught to an individual to implement when facing difficult or challenging situations.
Cognitive Building- Cognitive building can help sharpen the individual’s memory and thinking by activating neuroplasticity. The more the individual, post stroke, practices such cognitive exercises, the more the memory and thinking will improve. You get better through practice!
Activities of Daily Living Skills- when an individual has difficulties in the area of dressing, feeding oneself, toileting, bathing, dressing and writing. (Please choose area of concern). Cooking– Planning and preparing the various aspects of meals, including shopping and storing groceries.
Activities of Daily Living Skills- when an individual has difficulties in the area of dressing, feeding oneself, toileting, bathing, dressing and writing. Dressing and grooming – As in selecting clothes, putting them on, and adequately managing one’s personal appearance.
Activities of Daily Living Skills- when an individual has difficulties in the area of dressing, feeding oneself, toileting, bathing, dressing and writing. Feeding- Being able to get food from a plate into one’s mouth. The way the individual responds to food can be affected by factors such as his medical
Increasing fine motor skills- The coordination of small muscles, in movements; usually involving the organization of the hands and fingers—with the eyes. This includes small movements, such as writing and drawing.
Activities to increase fine motor skills- The coordination of small muscles, in movements; usually involving the organization of the hands and fingers—with the eyes. This includes small movements, such as writing and drawing.
Gait, Balance Activities/ Exercises- Gait or walking is a coordinated action of the neuromuscular and musculoskeletal systems. Balance is the ability to sit, stand, or walk safely without postural deviation, falling, or reaching for external items for support. Utilizing exercises and customized activities to increase gait and balance.
Increasing Gross Motor Skills an action that involves your using muscles. Gross motor skills are larger movements an individual makes with his arms, legs, feet, or his entire body. Crawling, running, and jumping are examples of gross motor skill.
Alternative &Augmentative Communication (AAC) – Various methods of communication that can help children who are unable to use verbal speech to communicate. AAC methods vary and can be personalized to meet t the child’s needs.
Increasing attention to tasks -Regularly losing focus during class, or when faced with a challenging task, there are strategic strategies that can help increase attention span and improve overall task performance across all environments.
Increasing Eye/Hand Coordination Activities – Eye-hand coordination is the ability of the vision system to coordinate the movement of the hands to perform a task. While vision is the process of understanding what the eye sees, it also involves the ability to move the eyes in a particular direction to
Memory Books, Helping You Put It Together – This book is used to help strengthen your child’s memory as part of their care and wellbeing. Increase organization, language skills and focus/Executive Function
Language skills – Receptive and Expressive- The child may have speech that is less intelligible, or a language problem which means they cannot express their thoughts or find the right words. Alongside the communication problems, they may have difficulty attending to what others are saying, processing information, organizing their thoughts,
Activities of Daily Living Skills- when an individual has difficulties in the area of dressing, feeding oneself, toileting, bathing, dressing and writing. (Please choose area of concern). Bathing- Adaptive equipment and devices may be used to enhance and increase independence when bathing and/or grooming.
Oral Motor Activities for Speech- Oral motor strengthening works on the oral skills necessary for proper speech and feeding development. These skills include awareness, strength, coordination, movement, and endurance of the lips, cheeks, tongue, and jaw.
