Virtual Pop It Anti Stress. No Problamas. Clean the Ocean of Pollution. Memory Matching in the Ocean. Set and Subsets: Shapes and Colors. Pop it Master. Gardfield Hidden Stars. Find Vegetables. Size Sorting. Online Shape Sorting. Tetris Online. Crossing the Wall. Laser Fruit. Memorize Animals in Order. Flower Shooter. Spring Match Pairs Memory Game. Pokemon Memory Matching. Easter Hidden Objects. This resource is part of our new Executive Functioning Skills series. You will find information, executive functioning skill areas, strategies, and tools added to the drop down menu above.
Recognizing a connection between sensory processing and attention can be a key focus point. Our free attention and sensory workbook can help. Limitations in cognitive abilities can impact all aspects of occupations in school, home, the community. Learning and daily activities provide opportunities for cognitive development, including attention, memory, problem solving. Additionally, concepts that children need for math and reading require attention and focus, including the ability to concentrate and attend to reading, counting and patterns in play are necessary for math concepts and early literacy skills.
Occupational therapists have the skills to work with the educational team to address specific needs in the classroom related to literacy skill development. They can do this through multi-sensory approaches, while addressing any accommodations, and in meaningful and motivating means, all while supporting specific goals. A quick search found evidence-based interventions that can be used to promote pre-literacy skills in early childhood. Some of these strategies include: facilitating the development of motor skills, sensory processing, postural control, and social interactions, as well as facilitating the development of alphabetic principle specific letters correspond to specific letter sounds , phonological awareness ability to discriminate and manipulate the sound structure , and phonemic awareness understanding of a sound, like the initial sound of a word into interventions.
This can be included by incorporating multi-sensory approaches to formation of alphabet letters, use of finger plays, songs, and pre-writing tasks during interventions to promote the development of literacy skills Frolek Clark, et al. Addressing areas such as impulse control, problem solving, distractibility, self-regulation, and delayed gratification can be tools to address habits and mindset behind inattentive types of behaviors.
There are various types of attention that kids can struggle with, each impacting function and independence in occupations of daily life for children in different ways. Mastering these types of attention are necessary for learning, safety, social skills, and function. Ever been at a loss for words? Reconstitute a text in which some words are missing. Reasoning Games Games that challenge our executive functioning help to train the highly complex cognitive processes of logic, strategic planning, problem solving, and deductive reasoning.
In addition to shaping these abstract processes, the brain's executive system is also required for decision making, recognizing errors, coping with new situations and inhibiting habitual reactions when they are judged to be inappropriate.
Thought to be localized mainly in the prefrontal cortex, the executive system has been likened by neuropsychologists to the conductor of an orchestra, helping to direct and control a wide array of diverse mental processes. To extend this metaphor, executive function training gives us the practice and rehearsal we need to keep the symphony of our brain's activity in harmony. Basketball in New York. Test your visual and spatial skills with basketballs. Color Traps. Test your ability to manage two competing activities.
Train your mental calculation skills by discovering the math formulas. Decipher the quotation and crack the secret code! Hurray for Change! Link different items in a logical way and in a timely manner. Money Time. Earn as much money as you can by drawing cards from the right pile. Ready, Steady, Count! Memorize an operation numbers and operators then do the calculation. The Bells of Notre Dame.
This game is not available yet on your device. It will be added soon. The Right Count. Quickly classify numbers by order in a matrix. The Towers of Hanoi. Think before you act! Rebuild the tower of rings by making strategic moves.
Writing in the Stars. This is a creative crossword puzzle with only 6 words! Sounds easy enough? Try it. Visual and Spatial Games Processing visual information in a 3-dimensional world is critical. Our ability to make sense of what we see helps us to interpret and navigate the world around us. Good visual and spatial skills help us to walk, run, drive and enjoy much of the artistry in life.
Visual and spatial games give us the opportunity to exercise these skills and pay attention to what is going on around us. Entangled Figures. Recognize the entangled objects that make up the complex figure. Request children to respond to opposite cues walk slowly to fast drum beats and quickly to slow drum beats. Or add in different actions with specific drum cues. For example, slow drumming means stomping feet and fast drumming means jumping jacks.
In either version of this game, a leader models different actions to be imitated. This builds impulse control, observation, imitation skills, and emotional regulation. Start by asking the children to stand tall like a snowman. Children then either relax or tense their bodies based on cues the adult provides. When the sun is coming out, children relax or begin to melt. When the snow clouds roll back in and it gets cold, children tense or freeze.
Repeat the phrase and raise the other arm overhead. Repeat the phrase and lower the other arm. Make the game more challenging by adding in speed elements how quickly can we go? This classic activity requires children to work on their self-regulation skills by overriding automatic responses as the song is changed. Begin by having students point to their head, shoulders, knees and toes while singing the song. Sitting on the floor in a large circle, have one ball represent the peanut butter and the other ball represent the jelly.
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