Speech Therapy, Activity-Based Therapy & Attention Concentration Building

Helping children to build attention & concentration

Attention is:

The ability to focus on a task and not focusing on other things.

Concentration is:

The ability to keep child’s attention on a task or something for continuous period.

Attention  and concentration are important for children’s learning, development and mental health. Children need to attend to and concentrate on things in order to understand and remember them.

We help children develop their attention and concentration by having fewer distractions in their therapy sessions. We use child’s name to get their attention. We keep the information simple, clear and well organised. Breaking tasks into short, simple steps.

We help children build their attention & concentration by doing following:

  • paper cutting
  • Maze activity
  • join the dots
  • matching picture sets

Helping children regulate their sensory needs

Children use their senses (sight, sound ,smell, touch, taste and balance) in order to understand environment and their backgrounds. Children with special need and autism may have difficulty filtering the sensory information. Sensory information can be more or less on them and they may react overwhelming and unpredictable.

We help children regulate their senses by doing following:

  • Alerting activities (for example spinning, bouncing on a gym ball, skipping, star jumps) to stimulate the body’s central nervous system in preparation for learning.
  • Organising activities (for example balancing on a wobble board, log rolling, juggling) which demand brain and body to work together.
  • Calming activities (heavy muscle work and deep pressure for example wall pushes, push ups, using weights) to give an awareness of their body in space and increases the ability to self-regulate sensory input.