Posts from June, 2008
Practical Fine Motor Activities
Recently I was at a school IEP meeting for a child evaluated at Emerge. I suggested that one of his OT goals might be competency in functional fine motor activities and gave a couple of examples. The school OT was happy to work on such activities, but asked for a list of suggestions. The result…
Ideation and the case for unstructured play/toys
Ideation is described as the first stage of motor planning. It is the ability to generate an idea of how one might interact with an object or the environment. The "what am I going to do?". Children with poor ideation skills generally have very limited play skills and are often dependent on adult…