Occupational Therapy Home Care Service - Batangas City

07/10/2025

Learning to write is a complex task! These pre-writing activities for preschoolers can help set up our youngest learners to become proficient writers as they progress through school.

03/10/2025

Answering some common questions na madalas tanong saamin

“May speech therapy po kayo?”
-Wala po. OCCUPATIONAL THERAPIST lang po.

“Saan po kayo located?”
-This is a homecare service. Therapist po ang pupunta sa bahay

For clarification din po, BATANGAS CITY area pa lang po ang kaya naming mabigyan ng service.

Thank you so much for inquiring! Another one is, we are currently on rest and will not accept patients until further notice 🙂

03/10/2025

Riding a bicycle can be an important right of passage for a child. Find out how you can help your child learn to ride a bike.

03/10/2025

25/08/2025

Activities or even certain types of “chores” can send messages to the proprioceptive system helping regulate the child’s behaviors and emotions.

Some “heavy work” activities may include the following:

💪Carry a backpack and fill it with books or collect rocks and branches while on a hike
💪Push a wheelbarrow
💪Shovel snow
💪Play leapfrog
💪Climb a rock wall

H/T to Integrated Learning Systems

10/04/2025

Over on the website, we have a resource all about preschool midline crossing.
These age-appropriate activities target midline crossing and are great for motor planning, visual motor skills, and brain breaks for the preschool age. https://www.theottoolbox.com/crossing-midline-activities-for-preschoolers/

There are some early warning signs we might see in the preschooler who struggles with crossing their midline. When we see a difficulty with the integrated motor patterns, this can be an indicator for various challenges.

🚩Some of the ways that difficulties with preschool crossing midline will present as:

>>Not developing a dominant hand. Students use the left hand for left sided tasks and the right side for right sided tasks. https://www.theottoolbox.com/hand-dominance-laterality-functional-activities-kids/
>>Showing delays in crawling, or an atypical crawling pattern. Here is a great article on Cross Crawling Activities. https://www.theottoolbox.com/cross-crawl-exercises/
>>Rotating or turning their entire body to retrieve objects on the other side of their body instead of reaching across the body to the other side
>>Having difficulty with age-appropriate self-care tasks like dressing or grooming activities
>>Skipping or doing jumping jacks in an uncoordinated manner. Check out this post on Gross Motor Midline Crossing Exercises​: https://www.theottoolbox.com/crossing-midline-march-gross-motor
>>Difficulty making a horizontal line across a piece of paper (may stop in the middle and switch hands, or pause visually) or forming letters
>>Visual perceptual difficulties: https://www.theottoolbox.com/visual-perceptual-skills/
>>Challenges with age-appropriate literacy skills (identifying letters, following pictures in a story- due to difficulty with visual tracking across the midline. Here is info on visual tracking: https://www.theottoolbox.com/what-is-visual-tracking/

If you see these things in the preschool years, it's ok! Kids develop at different rates. Try adding some play ideas that target these gross motor movements: https://www.theottoolbox.com/crossing-midline-activities-for-preschoolers/

08/03/2025

02/03/2025

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02/03/2025

FYI ‼️
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You can still message our page for inquiries and for line up!

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18/01/2025

What is self-regulation and what does that look like? Let's take a look at the importance of self-regulation skills for children.

18/01/2025

The arches of our hands work together to help us with fine motor skills and more. Read about them here: https://www.theottoolbox.com/development-of-hand-arches/

18/01/2025

Using a scooter board is awesome for jumping practice! See how you can do this!