Safety Awareness in the Home- Home safety is of utmost importance after TBI. You should arrange each room to enable your child to function as independently as possible
Strengthen Speech Skills– TBI can affect the individual’s communication abilities by the muscle movements of speech, or the cognitive processes that turn our thoughts into words., slow or slurred speech, difficulty swallowing and drooling.
Activities of Daily Living Skills- when an individual has difficulties in the area of dressing, feeding oneself, toileting, bathing, dressing and writing Toileting- The ability to get to and from the toilet, using it appropriately, and cleaning oneself.
Exploring the use of creativity through Visual Aids- Through visual aids within an environment is a meaningful way for individuals with Alzheimer’s / Dementia
Visual Motor Skills and Strategies- The ability to observe, recognize, and use visual information about forms, shapes, figures, and objects makes up our visual motor abilities. Visual motor skills include a coordination of visual information that is perceived and processed with motor skills, including fine motor, gross motor, and sensory
Visual/Oculomotor Strengthening- This is an eye condition in which individuals have difficulty shifting their eyes from one point to another or difficulty following a moving object effectively.
Visual/Oculomotor Strengthening- This is an eye condition in which individuals have difficulty shifting their eyes from one point to another or difficulty following a moving object effectively.
Visual Spatial Skills for Recognizing objects – Visual–spatial processing is the ability to tell where objects are in space. That includes your own body parts. It also involves being able tell how far objects are in space.
Awareness of the body in space (e.g. climbing stairs)- Spatial awareness also involves understanding the relationship of change in position as in climbing stairs.
Analyzing and remembering visual information- The ability to understand, reason and remember the spatial relations among objects or space. Visual–spatial abilities are used for everyday use from navigation, visual–spatial relationships, visual sequential memory, narrow attentional focus and visual information processing.
Drawing objects- Spatial intelligence, or spatial reasoning, is crucial in many academic and professional fields1. Despite the importance, it is rarely included in kindergarten or elementary curriculum
Visuo-spatial skills – While problems can occur with our sensory systems, visuo-spatial concerns are often more noticeable. Possible check areas of concern
Perception of the environment (e.g. following directions)- Visual-spatial thinking is the ability to perceive the visual information in the environment, to represent it internally, to integrate it with other senses and experiences, to derive meaning and understanding.
Telling left from right/ Neglect- Certain learning and attention issues often struggle with visual–spatial processing. They don’t easily develop an internal sense of what the left and right sides of the body exist.
Activities of Daily Living Skills- when an individual has difficulties in the area of dressing, feeding oneself, toileting, bathing, dressing and writing. Writing- The act or art of forming visible letters or characters specifically may be hindered due to a variety of global delays and/or medical diagnoses.
