Smile Find – Visual Scanning Visual Discrimination Activity

Check out this fun freebie to challenge visual scanning and visual discrimination skills.  You can download it for free by signing up for our newsletter at the end of the post.  Can you find all 14 smile faces that look different from all the rest?  Grab a yellow highlighter and give it a go.  It is certainly tricky to scan the whole paper to find only the 14 smiles faces that look slightly different.  So get those visual scanning and visual discrimination skills ready and give it a go!

If you need more visual scanning activities check out Ready, Set, Scan – this digital download includes 12 visual scanning and discrimination activities. How fast can you scan, find and mark each item? There are 12 challenges in all with different themes including: shapes, animals, fruit, party, travel and babies. Just print and start the search. Follow the directions: start a timer, scan for one object at a time, mark each object and stop the timer. Record your time in the box provided. Dot markers work great for marking the item. Use a different color dot marker for each item.

Need more visual discrimination activities?  Check out this figure ground and visual discrimination bundle for a huge selection of activities at a discounted price!

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Concussion Guidelines for Returning to Activity and School for Children

As pediatric therapists we may be involved in helping children return to activity and/or school following a concussion.  Of course, you should always work in conjunction with a physician but there are specific guidelines to follow.  CanChild has done a great job of creating evidence based resources to return to activity and school for youth and children. It goes through the steps you need to take based on the symptoms of the child.  In addition, once the child returns to school there are several suggestions for modifications to the school environment.

Here are 5 super helpful resources to help guide your decision making process with the child, family and physician.

Return to Activity Guidelines for Children & Youth

Return to School Guidelines for Children & Youth

Return to Activity and School Guidelines for Children and Youth (combined version)

Concussion Management Tips for Infants and Toddlers

Activity Suggestions for Recovery Steps After Concussion

Thank you CanChild for more great resources!

Need to document progress following a concussion.  Check out Mobility Rubrics.

Mobility Rubrics – This is an electronic book of 11 rubrics to assess mobility skills in the school environment. A rubric is a scoring guide to judge performance on a specific task. Have you ever wanted to quantify school mobility tasks such as negotiating the classroom, walking in line and negotiating the school bus?. Mobility Rubrics can be used as assessment tools to quantify an individual’s ability to complete a task. By using the rubric, each individual can be scored based on the same criteria.  FIND OUT MORE INFORMATION.

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