SUPPORT LEARNING SKILL IN KIDS

Kids are always engage in learning new skills through academic or extracurricular activities. this new skill makes them feel accomplished and rewarded. Every kid has potentiality to learn . Learning attitude differs among kids. Few kids are quick learner due to strong neural connections in brain so their brain can process the information efficiently. Some kids learn differently rather than traditional classroom learning because processing of information and response takes time. these are the kids who need support for enhancing learning ability.

Old method to help these kids is by providing them more time to process and respond or modify the learning into small chunks. these strategies does not help in cognitive enhancement.

To learn effectively kids can be taught to strengthen their cognitive-skills . One such cognitive skill is Executive function.

Executive Function (EF)should be encouraged by giving opportunities to child through numerous play activities ,social interaction and functional training to channelize these skillset.

These skillsets help child to navigate successfully through daily activities of living such as self care, play, study and extracurricular activities.

Executive functions are special skillsets of cognitive development, these skill set are working memory, inhibitory control and cognitive flexibility.

lets understand with a simple example about its work, While you are reading a novel, you keep track of story that is read . you are taking care that book doesn't get dropped ,now that someone offered you your favorite ice-cream you start enjoying that ice cream along with reading book . lets get clarified, track of story is your working memory doing. preventing the fall is being done by inhibitory control and licking ice cream along with reading novel is your cognitive flexibility.

Working memory supports the link between information. Inhibitory control works to eliminate distractions and select the appropriateness among the available options . Cognitive flexibility help transitions within or switching between task smoothly. every step that we analyze, have a strategy to accomplish the reading task . Playing with Rubik cube is another classic example of executive function. Same way to learn a task ,child can be supported with strategies base on executive function requirement of task to accomplish. These strategies will help child to develop potentiality of task learning.

~occupational therapy for Learning disabilities ,Writing training for special needs and supporting student with learning differences and for functional productivity~

Comments

OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY PART 1

O ccupational therapy ASSIST/SUPPORT patient/client to learn or improve skills needed to perform an occupation. An Occupation could include any thing from brushing teeth ,making bed,bathing toileting , going to office ,school related tasks . Occupational therapist works with all types of age group that is children ,adult and elderly population. Occupational therapist first completes an evaluation of task or Occupation to develop impression of impeding problem.After identifying the problem OT starts with specific treatment for the problem taking client from being unable to able. Problem in performing any occupation/task could be cause either by sensory issue,motor difficulty,perception ,cognition and so on. Occupational therapist have specialization that is pediatric occupational therapist,Neuro occupational therapist,Orthopedic,Geriatric, Oncologist and so on. _____________________________________

RIGHT or LEFT or MIXED HAND?

U nderdeveloped Hand dominance can cause problem in further development of learning in child. As Child grows he need to develop his learning skills to overcome the challenges in daily occupations. HAND DOMINANCE You may see a very young child keep switching hand while doing every task .It is quite normal to happen while early development of brain.At time it's quite confusing for parent to say assertively about child's hand preference . Initially a hand is preferred to do a task and by practice hand preference is succeeded by Dominance either Right handed or Left handed .In very rare case Child can be ambidextrous (mix dominance) that is using either of hand for given task example using Right hand for eating and Left hand for writing purpose. Confusion of dominance can hamper lateralization of Cerebral Hemisphere and integration leading to difficulties of Fine motor , Speech development and Visual Motor Integr...

DECODING FUNCTIONAL HANDWRITING SKILL 2

H andwriting development is one of the Academic developmental milestone.It is another mode of human expression.Every student must master & achieve this Handwriting milestone for their better grades & progress. Writing and Reading skill develops parallely.Ultimate goal of student's handwriting is to improve the speed . Letter formation,spacing ,holding pencil,pencil control and so on skills develop with the practice. Handwriting impact child's mental wellbeing more in higher grades. As not able to keep up with the peers while writing, made fun of handwriting, degrade score, remarks, aberrant self image and so on . Thus enhancing mindfulness, legibility and speed becomes therapeutic goals in case of such circumstance. Handwriting issue could also be because of the hand fatigue.Endurance for writing for a prolong time is needed in higher education.Higher Grades demands that student must thrive for legible handwriting for better scoring. Aspects of P...

Service for Therapeutic learning

Search This Blog