Fine Motor Activities: activities to utilize hand and finger muscles to improve the child’s ability to manipulate small objects

Pre-Writing & Handwriting Activities:– activities to promote and practice handwriting skills

Tactile Stimulating Activities: tactile perception is the ability to distinguish various objects through touch and pressure

 Vestibular Stimulating Activities:vestibular perception is the child’s perception of movement due to the inner ear being activated and the position of the head being changed.  These vestibular stimulating activities must be done with caution and calmly so as to prevent the child from falling or bumping head. Children who are non-verbal may not be able to tell you if they are hurting so be cautious

Proprioceptive Activities: proprioception is kinesthetic or body awareness which provides information to the child from inside the body from the muscles, ligaments, and joints.  These are especially helpful for children who have low muscle tone and who are not able to be sure where their body is in space.  They are in need of heavy work activities, which involve heavy weight for the body to carry. 

Motor Planning Activities: motor planning is the child’s ability to organize, plan, and then execute new or unpracticed fine motor or gross motor activity 

Visual Perceptual Activities: The vision skills we need to understand, analyze, and interpret what we see are called visual perception.