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Active Imagination Activity Book: 50 Sensorimotor Activities for Children to Improve Focus, Attention, Strength, & Coordination

Autor Kelly Tilley
en Limba Engleză Spirală – mai 2011

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Childhood is a time filled with new motor challenges and all kinds of hurdles; Kids are busy learning to tie their shoes, zipper their jackets, ride a bicycle, negotiate the playground, and write their names. All of these skills require kids to have strength, coordination, and the ability to focus and attend.

The activities in this book “Active Imagination Activity Book” tap into what kids love best - PLAY. The activities pictured in this book provide fun, easy, and imaginative exercises to build your child’s skills that are necessary for meeting the challenges of everyday life at home, school, and out in the community.

Whether your child/client can benefit from movement activities that are calming, energizing, strengthening, or simply from getting exercise in general, you will find this book to be a helpful resource at home, school, or in a therapeutic setting. The large clear pictures and concise descriptions are especially helpful for children who have difficulties with language, cognition, or attention. The activities themselves require little or no equipment and the duration of activities can be easily adapted as the child’s skills advance.  


 
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781935567288
ISBN-10: 1935567284
Pagini: 53
Dimensiuni: 187 x 227 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.14 kg
Editura: FUTURE HORIZONS

Notă biografică

Kelly Tilley is a Board Certified Occupational Therapist that lives in Crystal Lake, IL.  She was educated at The University of Toronto and the University of Western Ontario.
She currently works at Arlington Pediatric Therapy Management Services in Arlington heights, IL, providing therapeutic intervention for children with neurological and congenital conditions.

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Selecting Activities for each Child: Description of tabs

Tabs along the bottom border of each page allow the teacher, parent, or therapist to select activities that are ideal for calming, energizing, upper extremity strengthening, and core strengthening.  The tabs allow daily routines of activities to be easily developed. Tabs also make it easier to select activities that are specific to the child’s area(s) of need.  Often these sensorimotor activities improve more than one area, so multiple tabs will reflect this along the bottom of the page. For example, “Meteorite Launch” is an energizing and core strengthening activity.
 
Every child has a unique set of sensory needs and abilities. Some children appear “over-aroused” (too wired, unable to sit still) while some children appear “under ߝaroused” (too sluggish, trouble getting moving).  Improving children’s level of arousal and their ability to attend and focus can be achieved through sensorimotor activities.
 
Calming Activities
 
Activities that are designated as “calming” provide input to muscles and joints in a slow/rhythmic way. These activities generally focus on “deep pressure” and “heavy work”. Deep pressure activities refer to input such as “squishing under cushions, or being rolled snuggly in a blanket. Heavy work refers to any movement activity against resistance (pushing heavy objects, pushing up against gravity).  
 
Note:
These activities are great preparation for bedtime. They are also helpful prior to table top work at school or before homework.
 
Energizing Activities
 
Activities that are designated as “energizing” provide input to the body that “revs” up or “perks” up the nervous system. The movements are usually quick and often involve changes in head position. These activities often involve jumping, rolling, bending forward, leaping over objects, etc.
 
 
Upper Body Strengthening Activities
 
Activities that are designated as “upper body strengthening” involve weight bearing on extended arms, modified push- ups, animal walks, etc. These activities all help to build the child’s strength and stability in the shoulder girdle, arms, wrists, hands, and fingers. Upper body strength is critical to fine motor coordination which is necessary for children to perform everyday tasks such as writing, buttoning/zippering, tying their shoes.
 
Core Strengthening Activities
 
Activities designated as “core strengthening” target the large muscle groups of the hips, trunk, and shoulder girdle. These activities build postural control, bilateral coordination, balance, and the ability to grade movements. Climbing, running, jumping, and playing on the playground are more easily accomplished with good core strength. Development of the core is also important for regulation and attention.  Activities that require stability and postural control, such as sitting at a school desk during the day, are also more easily achieved when the child has better core strength.
 

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The activities in this book tap into what kids love best--play. The 50 sensorimotor activities provide fun, easy, and imaginative exercises to build a child's skills that are necessary for meeting the challenges of everyday life at home, school, and out in the community.

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