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.
External Memory Aids – Cues from the environment to aid remembrance of ideas and sensations. Using memory tricks, traits, or talents to help the individual remember certain events, facts, or even things
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.
Oral Motor Kits for Speech – therapy kits work on the oral skills necessary for proper speech and feeding development. Additionally, excellent ways to exercise the mouth muscles.
Organizational Skills- The ability to stay focused on different tasks, and use your time, energy, strength, mental capacity, physical space, etc. effectively and efficiently in order to achieve the desired outcome.
Reading and Writing Strategies following a TBI – Although your child might not be able to recover the reading and writing skills, they had prior to the brain injury, it is possible to make reading and writing easier by using some different strategies, fine motor
Problem- Solving Strategies- With problem-solving strategies, individuals learn to identify problems and goals, come up with multiple solutions, choose the best options, and evaluate how well their choices work out.
Relaxation Training – relaxation technique is any method, process, procedure, or activity that helps a person to relax; to attain a state of increased calmness; or otherwise reduce levels of pain, anxiety, stress or anger.
Creating a Safe Environment- Moving around safely and easily is not something thought about. Many areas of life may be impacted, and adaptations will need to be made to be safer. For example, the home can be safer by modifying the environment to prevent accidents as one move around the
Swallowing disorders; provide management strategies for mealtime and intake of food/drink- Dysphagia (swallowing and/or feeding strategies) means difficulty with feeding or swallowing. It is a symptom, not a disease. Oral dysphagia refers to problems with using the mouth, lips and tongue to control food or liquid.
Swallowing and/or Feeding Strategies – Developing the abilities to co-ordinate the muscles that are used for chewing, swallowing and breathing post TBI and/or Brain Injury. The sensory aspect of eating, which includes taste, temperature and texture, is also an important aspect. Some children have strong aversions to certain tastes and
