Tag: Cognitive

Research tells us that short aerobic exercise sessions can help children with: cognitive flexibility, self-regulation, behavior, and academic achievement! This exercise packet allow therapist to send home therapeutic exercise ideas including video demonstration. None of the exercises require any equipment. These activities encourage: endurance, cardio-respiratory fitness, physical activity, and coordination skills. (affiliate)
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Research tells us that short aerobic exercise sessions can help children with: cognitive flexibility, self-regulation, behavior, and academic achievement! This exercise packet allow therapist to send home therapeutic exercise ideas including video demonstration. None of the exercises require any equipment. These activities encourage: endurance, cardio-respiratory fitness, physical activity, and coordination skills. (affiliate)

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Research tells us that short aerobic exercise sessions can help children with: cognitive flexibility, self-regulation, behavior, and academic achievement! This exercise packet allow therapist to send home therapeutic exercise ideas …

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Frontiers in Psychology published research examining the relationship between motor coordination and handwriting skills, and to identify differences in handwriting between children without and with coordination difficulties with a focus on visual–spatial skills.  Motor coordination, graphic abilities, visual–motor integration, visual–spatial skills, and other cognitive abilities (memory and planning) were assessed in 83 children aged 7–10 years. …

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Frontiers in Psychology published research examining the relationship between motor coordination and handwriting skills, and to identify differences in handwriting between children without and with coordination difficulties with a focus on …

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Gross Motor Activities

Sluggish Cognitive Tempo in children includes behaviors such as being slow to complete tasks, easily confused, mentally foggy, drowsiness, frequently lost in thought, inactivity, decreased effort over time, and/or lacking initiative.  It may sound similar to inattentive ADHD and the symptoms do overlap but SCT is different.

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Sluggish Cognitive Tempo in children includes behaviors such as being slow to complete tasks, easily confused, mentally foggy, drowsiness, frequently lost in thought, inactivity, decreased effort over time, and/or lacking …

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Gross Motor Activities

Cognitive Orientation to daily Occupational Performance (CO-OP) is defined by Polatajko and Mandich as a “a client-centered, performance based, problem solving approach that enables skill acquisition through a process of strategy use and guided discovery”.   Physical and Occupational Therapy in Pediatrics published a small single case study series on 18 children between the ages of …

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Cognitive Orientation to daily Occupational Performance (CO-OP) is defined by Polatajko and Mandich as a “a client-centered, performance based, problem solving approach that enables skill acquisition through a process of strategy …

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Gross Motor Activities

Keyboarding and motor learning involve three stages: cognitive, associative and autonomous development. Keyboarding is a complex task that requires students to internalize motor sequences in order to become proficient.

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Keyboarding and motor learning involve three stages: cognitive, associative and autonomous development. Keyboarding is a complex task that requires students to internalize motor sequences in order to become proficient. Pediatric Occupational …

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