by Miss Jaime | Fine Motor & Bilateral Skills, Gross Motor Skills, Handwriting & Visual Motor Skills
Clapping Games are an Awesome Way to Work on Motor SkillsRemember all the clapping games you used to play when you were little? Nowadays, kids have a hard time playing with nothing. Meaning, if they don’t have a toy or an iPhone to keep them occupied, they...
by Miss Jaime | Fine Motor & Bilateral Skills, Handwriting & Visual Motor Skills
Middle School ANd Handwriting—Part 1 of 2 So many parents lose hope for improving their child’s handwriting after elementary school. It definitely can seem hopeless at times. How do you change a habit that has been developed over so many years? There’s...
by Miss Jaime | Fine Motor & Bilateral Skills, Handwriting & Visual Motor Skills
Did you know that in addition to having a dominant hand, you also have a dominant leg and a dominant eye? As toddlers learn how to use their arms and hands to pick things up, they start to develop a preferred hand. Usually, a child has chosen their dominant hand by...
by Miss Jaime | Fine Motor & Bilateral Skills, Gross Motor Skills, Handwriting & Visual Motor Skills
Shoulder stability provides an important foundation for fine motor skills! It’s really the first thing I look at as an OT when a teacher asks me to “screen” a child for OT difficulties. Shoulder stability should be established by the time a child starts kindergarten....
by Miss Jaime | Fine Motor & Bilateral Skills, Gross Motor Skills, Sensory Processing
Do Motor Skills and Positioning impact Table Manners? Absolutely! Many children have a little difficulty with “table etiquette.” Every family is different, and different cultures have different expectations of how a child should behave at the table. But,...
by Miss Jaime | Sensory Processing
I am very excited to share that I have decided to add a “book review” category to my blog because I totally love books, AND I think that everyone else should, too! I will periodically be adding book reviews to my blog for either your kids/and or you. They...
