Using arms and legs on both sides of the body is a developmental skill required for many mobility skills, occupational skills, and activities of daily living. Being able to coordinate different parts of the body improves success in numerous life skills such as safe and efficient mobility skills, playing games and sports, and performance in job skills and automobile driving. This video instructs in how develop the ability to perform jumping jacks, which is a bilateral coordination activity that can lay the foundation toward more complex and meaningful life skills.

Using arms and legs on both sides of the body is a developmental skill required for many mobility skills, occupational skills, and activities of daily living. Being able to coordinate different parts of the body improves success in numerous life skills such as safe and efficient mobility skills, playing games and sports, and performance in job skills and automobile driving. This video instructs in how develop the ability to perform jumping jacks, which is a bilateral coordination activity that can lay the foundation toward more complex and meaningful life skills.

Catching is a developmental skill that requires bilateral coordination and eye-hand coordination. By mastering this skill, a child is able to participate in age appropriate gross motor activities and participate in community based physical activities. This video highlights ways to teach a child to catch a ball, building the skill up by increasing the complexity of the activity toward acquisition.

Hitch crawling is the type of crawling that babies will sometimes do where the baby does not crawl with their knees under their hips and they instead will “hitch” one leg out of the side and crawl that way. Babies will do this because their core muscles are a bit weaker than what we want, so this is how they are able to compensate for it while still being mobile. It’s important to address this so that their core muscles do get stronger and allow for proper growth and acquisition of milestones as well as allowing muscles to develop in their hips that get stronger through reciprocal crawling.

Using arms and legs on both sides of the body is a developmental skill required for many mobility skills, occupational skills, and activities of daily living. Being able to coordinate different parts of the body improves success in numerous life skills such as safe and efficient mobility skills, playing games and sports, and performance in job skills and automobile driving. This video instructs in how develop the ability to perform various higher level bilateral coordination activities that can lay the foundation toward more complex and meaningful life skills.

Sabena explains what Occupational Therapy is and the different areas of concern that Occupational Therapists can address such as: fine-motor skills, gross-motor skills, sensory integration, sensory diets, visual processing skills and more).