Unicorn Find and Color – Visual Perceptual Skills

This unicorn find and color activity is a freebie from the Unicorn Sensory Motor Packet.  Children can practice visual discrimination skills, visual scanning and visual motor skills with this printable.

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Check out the complete Unicorn Sensory Motor Packet – This digital download includes 20+ games, activities and puzzles to encourage playtime, visual perceptual skills, fine motor skills, and physical activity.  FIND OUT MORE.

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Visual Perceptual Find and Color – School

Here is a visual perceptual freebie Find and Color for back to school from the School Doodle Find packet.  Challenge your student’s visual scanning and visual motor skills with this activity.  Can you find and color the 7 different school items?

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This freebie is from School Doodle Find, a visual perceptual game that includes 4 different game boards, 6 recording pages and 5 Find and Color pages. This game requires no preparation – just print and play! In addition, there are directions included to create a travel version of the game. This activity challenges visual tracking, visual scanning, visual discrimination and visual motor skills.  Print off multiple copies for your students and your activities are ready to go! Find out more about School Doodle Find.

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Executive Function in Adolescents Born Extremely Premature and Extremely Low Birth Weight

Pediatrics published research on 228 adolescents who were extremely preterm (EP; <28 weeks) birth and extremely low birth weight (ELBW; <1000 g).   Each participant was assessed with multiple executive function (EF) tasks, and parent- and self-ratings of behavioral EF. The Rey Complex Figure and Behavior Rating Inventory of Executive Function parent report were also administered at age 8 years, to determine if there was a change in scores between childhood and adolescence.

The results indicated the following:

1.  EP/ELBW adolescents performed more poorly than controls in the following areas - verbal processing speed, attentional control, cognitive flexibility, and goal-setting but not psychomotor reaction time.

2.  group differences were similar across tasks.

3.  during childhood to late adolescence, EP/ELBW children improved their accuracy of the Rey Complex Figure copy more than controls.

4.  parent report indicated that executive behaviors were largely stable over time in both groups.

The researchers concluded that adolescents born EP/ELBW have poorer EF skills across multiple domains than controls and recommend multidomain, longitudinal assessments in this high-risk population.

Reference:  Executive Function in Adolescents Born <1000 g or <28 Weeks: A Prospective Cohort Study.  Alice C. Burnett, Shannon E. Scratch, Katherine J. Lee, Jeanie Cheong, Karissa Searle, Esther Hutchinson, Cinzia De Luca, Mary-Ann Davey, Gehan Roberts, Lex W. Doyle, and Peter J. Anderson , on behalf of the Victorian Infant Collaborative Study Group
Pediatrics 2015; 135:4 e826-e834; published ahead of print March 23, 2015, doi:10.1542/peds.2014-3188

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Summary: Download of materials to create a binder for student
generated data collection on his/her goals. Two versions -
Handwriting with Tears® and Zaner-Bloser® Style

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6 Free Printables for Valentine's Day

Need some quick activities for Valentines Day?  Check out these 6 freebies.



1.  Follow that Monster:  Visual discrimination and visual motor activity from http://yourtherapysource.com/vpvalentinefree.html

2.  Multisensory Handwriting Activity for Valentine's Day from http://yourtherapysource.com/msvalentinefreebie.html



 

3.  Sample Pages from Valentine's Day Handwriting Activities at  http://yourtherapysource.com/valentinefree.html



 

4.  Conversation Heart Clothes Pins at  http://yourtherapysource.com/freeconversation.html

5.  Love Bug Pencil Critters from http://yourtherapysource.com/fmvalentinefree.html

6.  Valentine's Day Exercises from http://yourtherapysource.com/freevalentinebrainbreak.html

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After all those Valentine's Day treats get the kids moving with Brain Breaks for Valentine's Day.  Find out more at http://yourtherapysource.com/brainbreaksvalentine.html

 

 

 

Follow that Monster Visual Perceptual Activity

Challenge visual discrimination, visual spatial relationships and visual motor skills with this free printable.  Download just in time for Valentine's Day at http://yourtherapysource.com/vpvalentinefree.html

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Patterns, Patterns, Patterns

Here are 6 FREE sample pages from Patterns, Patterns, Patterns  which is a collection of over 50 visual perceptual activities involving patterns. Children will be challenged to draw the patterns and find shapes, numbers or objects in a pattern. The activity pages are in black and
white.

Patterns, Patterns, Patterns stimulates:
visual motor skills
visual perceptual skills
visual closure skills
visual discrimination
spatial relationships
visual memory

Download your free sample pages at http://www.yourtherapysource.com/patternsfree.html

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Holiday Shape Tree Visual Perceptual Activity

Here is a fun, holiday freebie in color or black and white.  You can download the freebie at http://yourtherapysource.com/freeholidayshapetree.html

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Holiday Puzzle on Paper

Here is a holiday puzzle to challenge visual spatial, visual closure and visual motor skills.  You can download it at http://yourtherapysource.com/christmaspuzzle.html

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Whooooo's There? Visual Motor Freebie

Download this visual motor and visual discrimination freebie at http://yourtherapysource.com/freethanksgivingowls2.html

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Thanksgiving Visual Discrimination Freebie - Whooooo Do You See?

Download this freebie to challenge visual discrimination skills at http://yourtherapysource.com/freethanksgivingowls.html

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Autumn Visual Closure Activity

Encourage visual closure and visual motor skills with this Autumn activity.  Download it at http://yourtherapysource.com/freeautumncloseup.html

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Vertical Puzzles

Here is a simple way to make vertical puzzles.  By hanging up the puzzles on the wall or in an upright position you encourage an increase in upper extremity active range of motion, wrist extension and can sneak in some gross motor skills (ie squatting and reaching up high).

Find an old poster or use the back of a cereal box.

Cut it into large strips.

Decide if you want to use a pool noodle to create your vertical puzzle or contact paper (reversed on wall so sticky side is facing out).

For the pool noodle version, slice a pool noodle in half lengthwise.  Then cut a strip down the middle of the pool noodle all the way through.  Only cut through the middle of the pool noodle not on either end.  Slip the cardboard in to help hold up the puzzle pieces.  Now you have an easel to put your vertical puzzle back together again.  Slide in each piece of the puzzle.

For the sticky paper version, on a wall hang up the contact paper with the sticky side facing out.  Use painter's tape around edges to hold it up.  Now reassemble your puzzle pieces right on the sticky paper.  Place the sticky paper higher up on the wall and the puzzle pieces on the floor to encourage squatting and reaching tall when reassembling the puzzle.   

Check out Puzzles on Paper.  It includes 40+ puzzles to challenge visual spatial and visual closure skills.  Find out more information at http://yourtherapysource.com/puzzlepaper.html

 

 

DIY Fine Motor and Visual Perceptual Toy

Here is a simple fine motor and visual perceptual toy to create.  Using a small juice bottle, place velcro dots all around the bottle.  Use fun foam shapes with velcro dots and place them on the bottle.  Glue matching fun foam shapes to a piece of cardboard.

Have the child pull off each velcro fun foam shape.

Place it on top of the matching shape on the board.

Here they are all matched up.

You could just remove the fun foam shapes and place them inside the bottle.

 

All done!