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Use this product to assess prewriting skills and determine handwriting readiness. Simply print and have your kiddo copy the shapes as they appear! At the top of each page find handwriting lines (three-lined, highlighted three-lined) which can be assessed to screen ability to write name or copy letters. Enjoy!

Are you a pediatric occupational therapist who is struggling with finding goal ideas? Struggling with writing goals that are neurodiversity affirming and inclusive of different neurotypes? Then this is the list for you! Created by a pediatric occupational therapist with 3 years of experience working with neurodivergent populations, enjoy this list of > 50 pediatric goals in different skill areas. Enjoy!

Do you have a Spanish speaking family in need of a fine motor/hand strengthening home exercise program? Then this download is for you! Including both English and Spanish instructions along with visuals/photos, this HEP is perfect for all clients in need for FM development. Note: translation may not be 100% accurate but has been used by Spanish speaking clients with great success. Enjoy this resource created by an occupational therapist!

Do you have students who struggle with orienting their clothing correctly after gym class or when returning from changing in the restroom? Are you a parent who's child struggles with finding front and back of clothing in the mornings? Utilize this resource that contains tips and tricks on how to draw awareness to front/back and left/right of clothing items so your kiddo can participate more successfully in their daily dressing routines! Created by an occupational therapist!

This worksheet was assembled by a pediatric occupational therapist. Many kiddos who struggle with letter reversals struggle with spatial awareness. This search and find activity (see page #1 for sample) can help increase top vs. bottom awareness (p vs b) and left vs. right awareness (d vs b). Pair with a multisensory activity (drawing shapes in the air, using push pins to poke the letters, tracing letters in shaving cream, etc. to further target these skills and see decreases in frequency of let

Do you have a client/student who struggles with shoe tying? Utilize this visual handout as a home exercise program and/or teaching tool using a modified approach to shoe tying.

Utilize this bundle of search and finds to locate the matching letters within the messy array. Have kiddos circle or highlight (as shown in example on page #1). This set contains 3 different search and finds: Lowercase Letter Search and Find, Uppercase Letter Search and Find, and Mixed Upper/Lowercase Letter Search and Find. Please see other listings for individual postings of these resources. Resources assembled by a pediatric occupational therapist. Enjoy!

Print this product and handout to teachers, administrators, and parents to explain the broad scope of practice of school-based occupational therapy. Use as an education and advocacy tool to show that occupational therapists can address so much more than handwriting in the school setting! Enjoy!

Do you have a student who struggles to write legibly? In this extensive handout, find helpful tips and tricks from an occupational therapist to improve handwriting or modify the task to improve legibility. Enjoy!

Are you a fieldwork clinical instructor or an occupational therapy student currently on fieldwork? Print out one worksheet for each week and utilize this weekly self-reflection tool to increase the critical clinical skill of self-reflection and tying evidence to practice. Great resource to track progress in fieldwork students! Enjoy.

Do you find your students to be extra wiggly throughout the day? Struggling to attend to lessons? Consider using this resource as an RTI Tier 1 and Tier 2 intervention support for these students who are seeking movement. Utilize the Classroom Movement Break for the whole classroom (Tier 1) or select a smaller group of students to complete a more self-directed movement break (Tier 2) in the back of the room or hallway. Enjoy these movement breaks designed to target multiple sensory systems, creat

Are you seeing messy handwriting in your classrooms? Unsure of what the cause is? This great resource for teachers and other school-based professionals educates on one potential cause: learn about how visual perceptual skills can impact student performance in the classroom. Helps in the identification of visual perceptual deficits to assist with referral to occupational therapy. Occupational therapists, please use this as an educational tool for the teachers and staff members in the schools you

Utilize this resource for your late elementary or early middle schoolers. Promote self-reflection and social-emotional learning curriculum with these prompted journal entries. Included are 4 regulating strategies dispersed within the journal entries! Print pages (excluding blue cover page) double sided flipped along the short edge. Fold in half, staple along the binding, and enjoy!

This self-reflection tool is perfect for older students who are trialing various self-regulation or sensory-based strategies. Use this self-reflection tool to assist the student in reflecting back on if a specific strategy was effective or not. Perfect for promoting independent use of self-regulation strategies in students with lower support needs.

Download and print this product as an advocacy and education tool. Communicate the broad scope of practice of pediatric occupational therapy to parents, interdisciplinary team members, and more! Examples of settings to use in: private practice, outpatient, inpatient, hospital, autism therapy center, etc. Enjoy!

Do you have a child who doesn't tolerate getting their nails trimmed? Are you an occupational therapist or other therapist struggling to help your clients tolerate this necessary IADL? Then this resource is for you, assembled by an occupational therapist, this resource provides ways to decrease tactile sensitivity and make nail trimming a fun activity!

Teachers and parents! Do you find your kids are too wiggly to participate in their daily activities with success??? Too sluggish and can't seem to wake up for participation???? Then this resource is for you! Put together by an occupational therapist, find a list of alerting and calming activities that you can do with little to no equipment and access to common play areas (play ground, gym, etc.). Enjoy!

Do you have a wiggly student/client? Difficulty staying focused and attending to lessons? Teachers, utilize these activities as a way of helping your movement-seekers achieve and maintain regulation throughout their school day. Therapists, utilize this resource as a home exercise program or a resource to provide to teachers/staff in your school buildings! Enjoy this resource created by an occupational therapist!

Teachers, do you have a student with fine motor delays? Therapists, are you looking for a home exercise program to give to a student/client? Look no further! This resource is for you - filled with whole body exercises to increase fine motor skills and hand function (for daily activities in and out of the classroom)! Enjoy this activity created by an occupational therapist!

Utilize this nature-based scavenger hunt in various ways with whole classroom, small group, or individual instruction. Incorporate it in a nature unit or with a book to target ELA or use within your science curriculum. Use as conversation starter: describe the sensory qualities of each item (wet/dry, color ID, soft/hard, crunchy, etc.) OR have students collect these items and place into a baggy or tape onto their scavenger hunt paper. Enjoy this activity created by an occupational therapist!