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Eversdalheights, South Africa
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I am an Occupational Therapist with a Master's degree in occupational therapy. I am passionate about early intervention and have a special interest in Pediatrics, Sensory Integration, and ADHD. I have more than 20 years of experience in early childhood development and have worked in private practice, special education as well as public school settings.
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Preview of Visual Perception: Occupational Therapy Resource Bundle

Visual Perception: Occupational Therapy Resource Bundle

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Visual perception is the brain's ability to receive, interpret, and act upon visual stimuli. Perception included the follow skills: Visual discrimination(The ability to distinguish one shape from another).Visual memory( The ability to remember a specific form when removed from your visual field).Visual-spatial relationships (The ability to recognize forms that are the same but may be in a different spatial orientation). Visual form constancy (The ability to discern similar forms that may be dif
Preview of Spatial Perception: Occupational Therapy Resource Bundle

Spatial Perception: Occupational Therapy Resource Bundle

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This Spatial Perception Resource Bundle is designed to support children's spatial perceptual development. It was created by an occupational therapist and includes a variety of activities and worksheets. Spatial awareness is knowing where your body is in space in relation to objects or other people. To have good spatial awareness, you also need to understand and respond to a change in position from these objects. This is a complex skill that children develop from an early age. Spatial perception
Preview of Spatial Planning: Tangram Puzzles

Spatial Planning: Tangram Puzzles

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Tangram puzzles can help develop stronger problem-solving abilities and is a fun way to engage kids in perceptual planning activities.  What is a tangram?Invented in China approximately 200 years ago, a tangram is a two-dimensional re-arrangement puzzle created by cutting a square into seven pieces -- seven geometric shapes called "tans" (Slocum et al 2003) This Spatial Planning Tangram resource is designed to support children's spatial perceptual development. It was created by an occupational
Preview of Figure-Ground Perception: Occupational Therapy Activity program

Figure-Ground Perception: Occupational Therapy Activity program

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An occupational therapist developed the Figure-Ground Perception Activity program to support visual perceptual development.  This resource focuses on Figure-Ground Perception and includes information about perceptual development,  various games, activities, and worksheets. Figure-ground perception is the ability to see an object in a busy background. This skill allows us to distinguish, segregate, isolate or find things or stimuli in varying environments. Correctly processing our visual figure
Preview of Let's get moving: Gross Motor Activity for the classroom.

Let's get moving: Gross Motor Activity for the classroom.

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Let's get moving! Fun, brain-break movement activity to get the bodies moving and provide a well-deserved movement break. This activity can be used in a group setting or individually and forms part of our OT activities for the classroom series. Quick, easy, and fun! This includes a classroom activity and developmental guidelines for body scheme and body concept. Follow us on TPT for more information, resources and freebies https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Writeability
Preview of Visual Perception: Spatial Awareness and Orientation. Nr.1 (Digital Activity).

Visual Perception: Spatial Awareness and Orientation. Nr.1 (Digital Activity).

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Spatial Awareness and Orientation  is an  online (digital) activity.  NO printing needed.Children learn best when tasks are introduced in a fun and age-appropriate way. What is more, fun to practice creating short words during an online game ? This Spatial Awareness Activity resource is designed to support children's spatial perceptual development. Spatial awareness is knowing where your body is in space in relation to objects or other people. To have good spatial awareness, you also need to un
Preview of Fun with Visual Sequencing: Digital Activity (Boom Cards)

Fun with Visual Sequencing: Digital Activity (Boom Cards)

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Visual Sequencing refers to our ability to perceive items in a specific order and remember that sequence. This skill is essential for visual and language development and is needed for reading, spelling (organizing letters in a particular order), and mathematical operations. This resource includes various activities to practice sequential visual perceptual skills needed for early perceptual and cognitive development. Self-correcting activity. This fun activity is played online on the Boom Learnin
Preview of Visual Perception: Form Constancy and Spatial Planning. Nr.3 (Digital Activity).

Visual Perception: Form Constancy and Spatial Planning. Nr.3 (Digital Activity).

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WriteAbility
Visual Form Constancy and Spatial Planning is an  online (digital) activity.  NO printing needed.Children learn best when tasks are introduced in a fun and age-appropriate way. What is more, fun to practice creating short words during an online game ? This Spatial Planning Tangram resource is designed to support children's spatial perceptual development. It was created by an occupational therapist and includes a variety of tangram activities. It provides lots of opportunities to develop spatial
Preview of Visual Perception: Visual Memory.

Visual Perception: Visual Memory.

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WriteAbility
Do you need something fun to challenge your child and engage them during homework? Need activities to consolidate skills? Teachers looking for less printing, laminating, and less time preparing activities?  Then our new WriteAbility Digital Online games are meant for you. Visual perception is the brain's ability to receive, interpret, and act upon visual stimuli. Visual memory is the ability to remember a specific shape, letter, number, word or object when removed from your visual field. This is
Preview of Fun with Opposites: Digital Activity (Boom Cards)

Fun with Opposites: Digital Activity (Boom Cards)

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WriteAbility
Fun with Opposites is an  online (digital) activity.  NO printing needed.Children learn best when tasks are introduced in a fun and age-appropriate way. What is more, fun to practice creating short words during an online game ? This activity was designed by an occupational therapist to support children's visual perceptual skills (figure-ground perception, analysis, and synthesis) and cognitive development (problem-solving and reasoning).  It includes activities to practice visual perceptual skil
Preview of Fun with Fruit: Visual memory and Figure-Ground.

Fun with Fruit: Visual memory and Figure-Ground.

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WriteAbility
Do you need something fun to challenge your child and engage them during homework? Need activities to consolidate skills? Teachers looking for less printing, laminating, and less time preparing activities?  Then our new WriteAbility Digital Online games are meant for you. Visual perception is the brain's ability to receive, interpret, and act upon visual stimuli. Visual memory is the ability to remember a specific shape, letter, number, word or object when removed from your visual field. This is
Preview of Visual Perceptual Skills: Visual Discrimination Nr. 1(Digital Activity)

Visual Perceptual Skills: Visual Discrimination Nr. 1(Digital Activity)

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WriteAbility
Visual Discrimination Nr.1 is an  online (digital) activity.  NO printing needed.Children learn best when tasks are introduced in a fun and age-appropriate way. What is more, fun to practice creating short words during an online game ? This activity was designed by an occupational therapist to support children's visual perceptual skills (visual discrimination) and cognitive development (problem-solving and reasoning).  Visual discrimination is the ability to recognize the details in visual image
Preview of Visual Perceptual Skills: Visual Discrimination and Figure Ground 2 (Boom Cards)

Visual Perceptual Skills: Visual Discrimination and Figure Ground 2 (Boom Cards)

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WriteAbility
Visual Discrimination Nr.2 is an  online (digital) activity.  NO printing needed.Visual Discrimination  refers to our ability to perceive differences and similarities. This skill is essential for visual perceptual development and is necessary for skills such as reading, spelling and math operations. The activity aims to practice visual discrimination and visual analysis and synthesis skills in an age-appropriate and creative manner.   The activity consists of 25 task cards that gradually become
Preview of Fine Motor Coin Activity

Fine Motor Coin Activity

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WriteAbility
Time for a Fine Motor Coin Challenge.Fun challenge to develop fine motor skills and dexterity.  Download you copy for free for a limited time only.  Laminate and use. No prep!This activity includes an activity sheet and a video demonstrating required movements Picking up coins and transferring them to our palmTaking the coins from our palms and stacking them to build a towerFlipping coins against time.This is a more challenging activity for those little hands, so start with a few coins and make
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Experience

I am an Occupational Therapist with a Master's degree in occupational therapy. I am passionate about early intervention and have a special interest in Pediatrics, Sensory Integration, and ADHD. I have more than 20 years of experience in early childhood development and have worked in private practice, special education as well as public school settings.

Teaching style

As occupational therapists we are passionate about children and early development. Writing ability entails so much more than just fine motor skills. There are many foundational skills necessary to enable neat, legible writing with appropriate speed, spacing and quality. WriteAbility aims to support teachers, therapists and parents with information, tools and therapeutic home and classroom activities to support and develop all aspects of writing skills for children from PreK to 3rd Grade. If you love what you do, you will never work a day in your life!

Awards & shining teacher moments

Dedre van Wyngaard Occupational Therapist. (M.Occ.Ther) Occupational Therapist, Educational consultant and Part Time lecturer at the University of Stellenbosch South Africa.

My own education history

B. Occ Therapy University of Stellenbosch 1999 M. Occ Therapy University of Stellenbosch 2008 Sensory Integration Certified SAISI 2009