Pumpkin Visual Discrimination and Scanning Activity

Pumpkin Visual Discrimination and Scanning Activity

Here is a fun pumpkin visual discrimination and scanning activity.  Print out the black and white page (get access to the FREE download at the bottom of the post).  Grab a timer and 3 different colored dot markers (or any colored markers).  On GO, students have to use their visual discrimination, visual scanning, visual tracking and visual motor skills to find one pumpkin at a time while they scan from left to right and top to bottom.  Be careful not to mark the wrong ones!  Some of the pumpkins look very similar.

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Want more timed games?  Check out Speed Match, Motor Minute Challenges and Set the Record.

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This Pumpkin Packet includes 11 no-prep, FUN activities to get children practicing fine motor, gross motor, and visual perceptual skills. The digital download is great for brain breaks, indoor recess, classroom party and more!  FIND OUT MORE INFORMATION.

 

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Practice Scissor Skills – Cut, Color and Glue for Spring

Grab some scissors, print out this free 3 page packet in black and white and practice scissor skills during Spring time.  This scissor skills packet includes a butterfly, ice cream cone and a snail.  Children can practice cutting straight lines, curved lines and circles.  Once the pieces are cut out, the child can assemble and glue the Spring picture.  Can they match the picture on the page?  This skill requires visual spatial skills, figure ground skills and more.

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Need more information on scissor skills?  Check out The Scissor Skills Book.  This is a huge resource for anyone who works on scissor skills with children. Written by a team of 10 pediatric physical and occupational therapists with years of experience in the field, The Scissor Skills Book is the ultimate resource for tips, strategies, suggestions, and information to support scissor skill development in children.  FIND OUT MORE.

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Visual Motor Integration Skills and Speech Sounds

Perceptual and Motor Skills  published research on visual motor integration skills in children with speech sound disorders (SSD).  A SSD is defined as a “persistent difficulty with speech sound production that interferes with speech intelligibility or prevents verbal communication of messages”.  Visual motor integration (VMI) is defined as the coordination of visual and motor functioning, which is closely related to academic skills.  Since visual input plays an important role in learning the phonological structure of language, children use multimodal information to determine how to produce a sound by perceiving speech spoken both by themselves and others.

The participants included 65 Turkish children aged from 5 to 6½ years old (31 with speech sound problems and 34 age matched controls without speech problems).  Each child was evaluated with the Ankara Articulation Test for evaluating speech sound skills and the Beery-Buktenica Developmental Test of Visual Motor Integration with its supplemental tests of Visual Perception and Motor Coordination.

The results indicated that the children with SSD scored significantly lower than the control group in Visual Motor Integration, Visual Perception, and Motor Coordination.

The researchers recommend that if a child has SSD there may be visual motor deficits. Even though phonological errors are a natural part of the developmental process, visual motor skills should be examined if the child’s speech sound development falls within a very low percentile.

Reference:  Ercan, Z. G., Yilmaz, Ş., Taş, M., & Aral, N. (2016). Investigation of Visual Motor Integration Skills in Children With Speech Sound Problems. Perceptual and motor skills, 0031512516664894.

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