Mindful Movements Therapy

Feel Good Friday 🌟
Ripping paper 📝 🙌
Ripping paper promotes fine-motor skills such as grasp, hand strength, eye-hand coordination, bilateral coordination and more. A great activity with minimal supplies needed.

Did you know that scooping and pouring play builds a child’s fine motor strength and coordination. These are skills that are later needed to perform pencil and paper tasks in school. As messy as it can be, let them experiment. ☀️ 🏖

Skills involved: 🤩
Hand and arm strength
Bilateral coordination
Eye-hand coordination
Graded precision
Sensory exploration

It’s egg season 🐰 🌸 What kiddo doesn’t like a good Easter egg hunt? Plastic eggs are an easy way to work pre-writing or letters, as well as strengthening and bilateral coordination. Set up a gross motor obstacle course with the eggs on the other side and let the fun begin. 💪🏼 Did you know that kids need to know how to form their pre-writing strokes before they learn how to write their letters ?? 💭

Happy OT month 🥳

Visual motor integration involves a complex skill set which encompasses underlying skills such as visual perception, motor control and eye-hand coordination. It involves efficient communication between the eyes and the hands. 👀 ✋ 🤚 These skills are important in a child’s everyday activities.

Did you know that kids should be playing in order to build up their strength before they even hold a pencil? Pinching, pulling, ripping, squeezing and weight bearing activities are all great strengthening activities. Hand strength is so important in everyday activities ✂️ 🧥 👟 🖍

Hello, My name is Taylor Hoffman and I am a pediatric occupational therapist. I have been treating children from preschool through 5th grade for the last 5 years. I am also a mom of 2 young children.

I love working with kids and seeing them learn and succeed while increasing their independence. Since a child's main occupation is 'play', all my sessions are hands-on and fun. Multi-sensory learning is the key to engagement, motivation and skill acquisition!