Occupational Therapy

(Visual Motor Integration is the coordination of hand movements based upon the perception of visual information). Some activities you can do at home with your kids to help them practice these skills include:

• Word search puzzles

• Dot to dot puzzles

• Coloring (inside the lines)

• Maze puzzles

(the vision skills needed to understand, evaluate, and interpret what is seen). Some activities you can do at home with your kids to help them practice these skills include:

• Interlocking puzzles (jigsaw kind)

• Hidden Picture games

• Spot It! Card game

• I Spy games/books

(involve the use of precise and coordinated movements of the fingers to perform hand use tasks). Some activities you can do at home with your kids to help them practice these skills include:

• Lego building (smaller blocks provide a better finger workout!)

• Don’t Break the Ice game

• Operation board game

• Play Doh/clay