Vision Mechanics: Core Four
Learn more about these Core Four activities that are inexpensive, widely available, and can help boost a child’s visual skills for the classroom and for life.
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Visualization Golf
Download: Visualization Golf Purpose: To develop the ability to create a mental image of a form that is no longer present visually. To develop spatial-motor mapping awareness. Procedure: Have the client sit at a table with one page of the paper golf course in front of her. She looks at and studies the golf course…
Visualization Golf
Visualization Golf Purpose: To develop the ability to create a mental image of a form that is no longer present visually. Procedure: Have the client sit at a table with one page of the paper golf course in front of her. She looks at and studies the golf course to become aware…
Directional Maze
Directional Maze Purpose: To develop or improve awareness of the right and left concept in space relative to the body. The primary goal is to create awareness of what happens to concepts of ‘left’ and ‘right’ when an animate object turns in space. Procedure: Print a copy of the worksheet. The ‘mouse’ (located…
Visualization Directionality
Visualization Directionality Purpose: To aid in the development of ocular motility, spatial awareness and manipulation, searching eye movements, figure-ground discrimination, laterality, directionality, and speed of recognition. Equipment/Apparatus: Visualization Directionality worksheets. Method: 1. For the purposes of this activity, the available transformations are: R = Rotate Right = One quarter turn clockwise. L =…
Bean Bag Toss
Purpose: To develop bilateral control, VMI, and spatial awareness. Material: Two pails/buckets/bowls, small beanbags (or other soft, non-bouncy, small objects for tossing), paper, pencil, balance board. Procedure: Patient stands about six feet from the bucket and is instructed: 1. First practice tossing one bag into the right bucket and then into the left as…
330 String and Dowel
330 String and Dowel Download and print, or simply preview the attached document. Equipment: Six-foot length of string, yardstick/meter stick/3 foot dowel (like a short broom stick), colourful thumb tack (so long as you can easily see it stuck on the end of the dowel/yardstick), button/bead/target. Method: These exercises emphasize VSA (pursuits, saccades,…