Day 1: Fine Motor Gymnastics to Multi-Sensory Print Agenda

 

8:00 AM - 3:00 PM
5.5 Contact Hours or 0.55 AOTA CEUs

7:30 Registration (MUFFINS OR BAGELS AND COFFEE/TEA)
8:00 Introduction and Fabulous Lab Demonstration!
(Workshop Begins Promptly at 8:00, CEUs will be amended for late arrivals)
  Fine motor development from age 3 – 6
  RECEIVE: PENCIL GYMNASTICS KIT for YOU to teach staff how to
integrate fine motor skills and grasp development into the classroom or clinic.
  MAKE AND TAKE: Balloon Exercisers for Grasp, Homemade Shaving Cream Air Putty
for grasp exercises
  A simple method to teach grasp/Overview of Pencil Gym Kit
  Special challenges for fine motor development

 

Multi-sensory grasp and fine motor labs for classroom centers or clinic
  Lab demonstrations of activities that even the most fine motor resistant child will love!:
Fizzing Foam Muffins!
Shaving Cream Putty
  Video: Fine motor delays vs typical development
 

Group Lab: Dollar stores, donated supplies, and a little creativity – how to create an impressive
inventory of fine motor activities.

 

Grasp and the Child, Is it important? Research

  The Pencil Grip Junk Closet, which grips REALLY work?!!
  Common problems in the hand, SOLUTIONS and protocols!
  Learning to Write in School: Too much, too soon, too hard?
What works and what does not work! Empowering teachers!
  Power point slides of highly visual, fun large/medium/small motor labs
  SMALL GROUP LAB: Theme lab - look at how a theme can be generalized to fine motor labs
  Multi-sensory Print Handwriting Lab
  Large/Gross Motor Lab
  Medium Motor Demonstration Lab
  Visual Cueing and “Facilitated Handwriting” using Zany Writing Topics
  LAB: Letter reversals
  Sensorimotor Gym Activities for Kinesthetic Handwriting
  WALK-AROUND EXPLORATION LABS - tongs labs, scissors labs,
  MAKE AND TAKE: Numbers Curriculum ACTIVITY: Number Rhymes
  LAB: Assessment for Pre-K - 1st grade Receive First Strokes Assessment
and Clinical/Classroom Screening Forms/Goals & Objectives Forms
  SMALL GROUP DISCUSSION: Classroom/Treatment Planning
3:00 Workshop Ends