Jan Emerick-Brothers OTR VOTA School Symposium March Home OR

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1 Jan Emerick-Brothers OTR VOTA School Symposium March 2017 Home OR

2 Carry materials from place to place? Getting YOUNGER?? Getting a larger budget??? Getting in a rut with our materials???? If you are bored, don t you think your clients are too????? These things we cannot change Expand your repertoire with familiar inexpensive items What else can you and your client accomplish with WHAT YOU ALREADY HAVE? Want to be your bosses favorite? These can change today with practice!

3 Use my ideas for springboard Expand and share with each object Train ourselves to think Do More with LESS Please feel free to brainstorm here. We are a brain trust and can learn from each other!

4 Used for manipulation, precision placement,grasp and strength Remove face cards from deck, mark Aces with the number one, and you have all sorts of math games and challenges Counting and matching can also work with existing numbers Great way to use old incomplete decks! King game, clock, ace numbers Work in prone Clock solitaire Standing balance, walk side to side House of cards, team work Go fishing, with paper clips/dowels Code number to letter/number

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6 Hand skills to grasp, hold shake Cognitive skills to count, add, match, multiply and divide Write numbers or number words based on what number comes up Use for chance number of repetitions to do on presented task Draw a picture from number Popsicle stick at lips and put dice on to increase mouth strength Slow down with tongue depressor/ stick with die staying on Partner with peer to stack and hold Activity dice

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8 Holds all your treatment stuff Can guess what is inside Ms.Jan s Bag to get steriognosis Add/find closures so that you can work on closures in a variety of ways BEFORE it hits their own clothing Automatic measurable outcome with number of closures on each bag Easily made with shirts and jackets from Goodwill or Salvation army Sensory elements to bags Place puzzles or activites in bags add to obstacles/stations Weight pads Laundry bags and pull ties Clear pencil cases in and out of binders

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10 Identify Sort Match Add Shapes can create topics of conversation Seasons can be reflected as can holidays. Stick in eye balls or jingles balls.

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12 Count Identify Value Purchase power Manipulation with placing in slots Add change to specific amounts that match IEP or self care goals. Work for change.value of prizes Pattern discrimination Discrimination by size

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14 Open/manage container Get breath support Blow and catch (eye hand coordination) Who does not LOVE bubbles? Emotional/breath support Fingers to pop bubbles

15 Sensory when popped Balance and pop Keep blown bubbles in the air Make your own bubbles Strainers Recipes to copy/ make shopping list Communication

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17 Easy and cheep resource Awareness of day of the week, month Counting/writing numbers Identifying the object pictured Cut and create puzzle Re-create picture following mix up Gluing then writing about photo

18 Name on Birthdate Add activities Therapy times Bubble talk to caption picture Mark changes/anticipation of events

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20 Hand skills /strengthening Add your previously identified buttons, coins or small objects Hide these objects first then have then classify as they come out of the putty Here s my playdough recipe PLAYDOUGH 1 cup of flour ¼ cup salt 1 heaping teaspoon cream of tartar 1 cup boiling water ½ tablespoon salad oil For color and scent add 1 envelope unsweetened Kool Aid. Mix all dry ingredients. Add boiling water, stir until texture is consistent and thick. You may need to micro-wave 30 seconds at a time to increase consistency in texture. Use care with heat and allow dough to cool prior to unsupervised play. Store in airtight bag or containers. This will store for many months.

21 Gak/slime/ Sticky tack Model Magic change colors form objects mix the color pounding the marker into it Clay write in it. Erase Tick tac toe with silly putty Cut putty with craft scissors Crazy Aaron s putty Putty World.com

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23 Use ONE copy of worksheets, mazes Color code errors so that they are more easily recognized Dry erase markers are a kid pleaser Less resistant than working on paper Strengthen by erasing completely with a variety of tools such as used dryer sheets, felt, other available erasures for dry erase markers Use wet erase markers for changes in sensory loads

24 Use of q-tips for erasing Spray bottles for wet erase Binder with cover to hold and use for dry erase on binder Dried out dry-erase markers as an eraser Visual schedule Wikki -Stix Alternative, use Overhead sheets/pattern and cut

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26 Springboard for goal setting Both agree on goal, outcome and reward Way to work on signatures me and I ll send you the ones that I have been using Leader with teachers empower good behaviors Employment contract practice reading so not to be taken advantage of in real settings Expected/unexpected behaviors Sign out equipment on goal completion

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28 Sort by color Use to blow cotton balls/games Cut to beads Reinforce patterns Stringing into patterns with a variety of tools, lacing, pipe cleaners yarn Folded paper beads to straws make shapes Blow bubbles with straw in water/liquid then sip Spacers Firework paintings Structures with marshmallows and straws Visual tracker for text Pipe cleaner through straw/coffee stirrer Rocket to smaller insert into bigger then blow larger straw

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30 Thank you for coming today! Remember to think that good things come from small packages!

31 Great things are done by a series of small things that are brought together. Vincent Van Gogh