Blogs1 - 10 of 137 recent posts for tag:"motor skills"
20
Nov
2009
A Helpful Hint to Improve Fine Motor Skills

3 days ago by Connie McCarthy

“Mrs. McCarthy, I like to color but my crayon just won’t stop at the line!” said Kate. Some young children have yet to develop the fine motor skills needed to make their crayon “stop at the line.” This often makes a child reluctant to color, even though coloring is great practice for improving fine ...

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13
Nov
2009
Autism, Poor Handwriting, and Occupational Therapy

10 days ago by scottie

Lisa Jo Rudy, who writes about autism for About.com, commented on a recent small study that seemed to indicate that children with autism may have poorer handwriting than their neurotypical peers. The study, done at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and the Kennedy Krieger Institute, reported that poo ...

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12
Nov
2009
Exercise Those Motor Skills!

10 days ago by Tori Deaux

Motor skills. According to Wikipedia, they’re a learned series of movements combined into one smooth, efficient action. They include large or “gross” motor skills, like sitting up, walking or running… and smaller, “fine” motor skills like writing, fastening buttons, or putting on a pair of earrings. ...

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10
Nov
2009
Another Obstacle Autistic Children Face

12 days ago by Brittany Durdin

Autism has been connected to bad handwriting, making it hard for some autistic children to succeed in school even though they are fully capable of obtaining knowledge. Studies suggests this struggle is linked to motor control. However, motor control is “is a bit more straightforward to work on such ...

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Not Us…

13 days ago by coreyanderson

That’s the first thought that goes through your mind when you are told that your son has “severely delayed motor skills”. I mean, I’ve never had a baby before, so I’m not sure exactly what to look for in terms of motor skills development but I was aware you weren’t crawling very much until about you ...

Life of Coen Anderson - lifeofcoenanderson.wordpress.com

09
Nov
2009
Do it yourself Transdermal Magnesium Chloride Therapy

14 days ago by Thierry Sanchez

Transdermal Magnesium Therapy is a hot topic lately. You can read lots of articles on the net about the problems associated with magnesium deficiency. For one, it affects atheletic performance. Magnesium relaxes the muscles and calcium tightens the muscle. Some year ago, a naturopath recommended me ...

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04
Nov
2009
Snatch: thumb up or thumb down?

19 days ago by Thierry Sanchez

If you only use one snatch technique for GS, you may want to reconsider… Snatch style is usually a personal preference due to body mechanics. Efficiency is mastery of technique. Styles and efficiency can mutually co-exist, even though some people think there is one only one way of cooking an egg. Va ...

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03
Nov
2009
March Of The (Halloween) Penguins

20 days ago by M.J.

This was our second family Halloween with Dominik & Scarlett and this year they got to go trick or treating. In this picture we got our family portrait in front of the same house we got it in front of last year. Does everyone look the same? I’m pointing at the camera so the twins will look at it but ...

Twin Overload - twinoverload.wordpress.com · 1 reference

02
Nov
2009
Sensory Friendly Playground Built with Kids with Autism in Mind

21 days ago by scottie

What if you could find a sensory friendly playground for your child with autism? The organization, KaBOOM!, assisted the Lori Brocker Museum in California in creating one. Two hundred volunteers worked for 6 hours to build a playground that includes musical instruments and equipment to help children ...

Healing Thresholds - News ... - autism.healingthresholds.com/news/feed · Rank: 88,540 · 18 references

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