Understanding form discrimination and using occupational theory to cope

Understanding form discrimination and using occupational theory to cope

Form discrimination comes under visual discrimination, in which a child faces problems in identifying or sorting letters, symbols, shapes, or words. The discrimination ability can hinder even with a slight difference in the size of the word, object, or shape. With the form discrimination, orientation changes, but the form remains constant. A child facing form … Read more

Understanding visual discrimination among toddlers and strategies to improve these skills

Understand visual discrimination among toddlers and strategies to cope

When your child starts to perceive new objects or things around him, he visually discriminates the things – patterns of the items, sizes, shapes, and colors. This activity of perceiving and understanding tangible and intangible objects and ideas is called Visual Discrimination. If your child cannot visually discriminate things, there is no need to fear … Read more

9 Online Games For Kids To Improve Writing Skills

List of top 10 Online Writing Games

“My child hates writing!” Does this sentence sound relatable to you too? I am sure it does! After all, this statement is quite common, especially among the new generation parents. For young children, creativity and imagination are just like games, and why not teach them writing by some fun activity? Children will grow into successful … Read more

45+ STEM Education Quotes For Driving Ratiocination

45+ STEM Education Quotes

There are a thousand ways to start an article, but only a handful works when it comes to making an impression. The funny thing about quotes is, these words hardly make any literal sense. Writers are notorious for projecting an indefinite meaning advocating through their vocables. There is a constant cast shadow play of satire … Read more

Measurable IEP Goals for Geometry

Measurable IEP Goals for Geometry

It’s hard for a child with learning disorders to match the performance of a regular child. They can’t just study the same curriculum given to the abled kids and if they can, they require a little extra effort than their counterparts. Thus in order to make developmental, behavioral, and social skills better for the differently-abled … Read more

How to Improve Reading Comprehension Skills of 3rd-graders?

How to Improve Reading Comprehension Skills of 3rd-graders?

From learning to read to reading to learn your child has to go through a process that is crucial in itself. Usually, till 2 nd grade your kid learns to read, they start developing the habit of reading words but as the curriculum proceeds to 3rd grade, it becomes imperative that your kid understands the … Read more

5 Famous YouTubers with Dyslexia

5 Famous YouTubers with Dyslexia

When the spotlight turns off, and it’s time to wrap up the errands, it is primordial for many to find their salvation in Youtube. There is something profoundly emancipating in looking into other people’s lives, and we are guilty of the same crime. That’s one of the primitive reasons for the growing popularity of YouTube … Read more

Listening Comprehension IEP Goals: Main Goals, Importance, Ways to Formulate, Intervention Strategies

Listening Comprehension IEP Goals: Main Goals, Importance, Ways to Formulate, Intervention Strategies

The US Department of Education proposes formulation, implementation, and review of IEP goals if any student needs extra support to attain age-appropriate academic competency. IEP, as we discussed in our previous post on Vocabulary IEPs, stands for Individualized Education Programs. The public schools in the US form IEP goals for about 13 academic competencies including … Read more

11 Gamified Math Manipulatives For First Graders

10 Gamified Math Manipulatives For First Graders

Please Note: This post may contain affiliate links. Please read my disclosure (link) for more info. ‘There must be some playful way of teaching new math concepts to first graders.’ If this thought hits your mind often, especially when you see the child struggling through basic operations, here is good news for you! There are manipulatives available as … Read more

Understanding, Identifying, And Developing The Gross Motor Skills In Pre-schoolers

How to develop gross motor skills in preschoolers? If you have a certain gap in your understanding of this topic, we suggest you read this post till the end. For the uninitiated, Gross motor skills are defined as the ability to make movements that involve limbs and torso muscles. A well developed gross motor skill … Read more