Developing Ocular Motor and Visual Perceptual Skills An Activity Workbook

Dedication

Acknowledgments

Preface

Chapter 1: How to Use This Book

Chapter 2: The Complexity of Reading

Chapter 3: Eye Movements and Reading

Chapter 4: Ocular Motor

OM-1: Colored Overlays

OM-2: Figure Ground

OM-3 :Static Fixation

OM-4: Line Counting

OM-5: Fixation Activities

OM-6: Four Corner Fixation

OM-7: Pencil Pursuits

OM-8: Number Pursuits

OM-9: Global Scanning

OM-10: Letter Search

OM-11: Words in Words

OM-12: Visual Scanning

OM-13: Yardstick Fixations

OM-14: Pencils With Numbers

OM-15: String Reading

OM-16: Near-Far Letter Naming

OM-17: Baseball Fixations

OM-18: Spatial Attention

OM-19: Peripheral Training

OM-20: Marsden Ball

OM-21: VMC Bat

OM-22: Brock String

OM-23: Pursuit Reading

OM-24: Dictionary Training

OM-25: Board-Book Reading

OM-26: Orthography Activities

Chapter 5: Gross Motor

GM-1: One Foot Hop

GM-2: Stepping Stones

GM-3: Heel and Toe Rock

GM-4: Pattern Hopping

GM-5: Gross Motor Balance Sequencing

GM-6: Foot Tapping

GM-7: Bean Bag Basketball

GM-8: Crawling Activities

GM-9: Marine Crawl

GM-10: Creeping Activities

GM-11: Colored Squares

GM-12: Head Tilt

GM-13: Eight Square Bouncing

GM-14: Letter Tracking and Bouncing a Ball

GM-15: Activities for Ball Bouncing

GM-16: Beanbag Activities

GM-17: Balance Board on Hands and Knees

GM-18: VMC Bat While Balancing

GM-19: Tape Walking

GM-20: Walking Rail / Balance Beam

GM-21: Trampoline

GM-22: Jump Rope Activities

GM-23: Rhythm

GM-24: Rhythm - 2

GM-25: Finger to Thumb

GM-26: Dual - Task

GM-27: Rhyme/Sound Categorization

GM-28: Mental Rotations

GM-29: Visual Imagery

Chapter 6: Visual Motor Perception

VMP-1: Bean Counting

VMP-2: Nuts and Bolts

VMP-3: Line Drawing

VMP-4: Flashlight Activities

VMP-5: Angles and Oblique Lines

VMP-6: Proximal and Distal Kinesthetic Reinforcement

VMP-7: Motor Planning

VMP-8: Kinesthesia

VMP-9: Finish the Designs

VMP-10: Geoboards

VMP-11: Dot Pattern Designs

VMP-12: Can You Imagine a Shape?

VMP-13: Matchsticks

VMP-14: Lines and Shapes

VMP-15: Round Paper Drawings

VMP-16: Occluded Vision Copying

VMP-17: Triangle and Square

VMP-18: Bimanual Coordination

VMP-19: Continuity

VMP-20: Points and Continuity

VMP-21: Handwriting Development

VMP-22: Letter Size Spelling

VMP-23: Frequently Difficult Letters

VMP-24: Pencil Grip Relaxation

VMP-25: Mirror Image Activities

VMP-26: Eye-Hand and Fine Motor Control

VMP-27: Space Matching

VMP-28: 3-D Tic-Tac-Toe

VMP-29: Spatial Relationships

VMP-30: The Relationship of Surrounding

VMP-31: Linear and Circular Order

VMP-32: Knots VMP-33 Vectors

Chapter 7: Visual Memory

VM-1: Identifying Digit Span

VM-2: Clock Memory Game

VM-3: Auditory Span

VM-4: Color Sequencing

VM-5: Sequence Memory Skills

VM-6: Rhythm

VM-7: Hand Sequencing

VM-8: Digit Span/Spatial Task

VM-9: Sentence Endings

VM-10: Daily Memories

VM-11: Motor Sequencing

VM-12: Upper and Lower Case

VM-13: Semantic Association

VM-14: Chunking

VM-15: Number Scans and Math

VM-16: Colors for Directions

VM-17: Scan Memory

VM-18: Visual Spatial Memory

VM-19: Initial Blends

VM-20: Sign Language Alphabet

VM-21: Word List/Two Second Span

VM-22: Consonants

VM-23: Verb Generation

VM-24: Grid Dots

VM-25: Word Shapes A VM-26 Dual Task

VM-27: Word Shapes B

Chapter 8: Laterality

L-1: Head Roll

L-2: Body Roll

L-3: Maze Game

L-4: Flashlight Walking

L-5: Walking Procedure

L-6: Numbered Circles on Marker Board

L-7: Angels in the Snow

L-8: Coding on Marker Board

L-9: Tactile Reinforcement

L-10: The Clock Game

L-11: Midline Training

L-12: Reciprocal Movements

L-13: Tic-Tac-Toe

L-14: Xs Procedure

L-15: Arrows on Board

L-16: Vertical Lines

L-17: Body Awareness

L-18: Laterality Coding

L-19: Directional U Saccades

L-20: Directional Arrows

Chapter 9: Reversals

Rev-1: Letter Orientation

Rev-2: B-D-P-Q Sorting

Rev-3: Directional U Saccades

Rev-4: Directional Arrows Rev-5 Teach Letters by Classes

Rev-6: Flash Cards and Reversed Letters

Rev-7: Fill in the Loops

Rev-8: The Bed

Rev-9: Vectors

Rev-10: Commonly Reversed Words

Rev-11: Distinctive Features

Rev-12: Bilateral Circles

Rev-13: Marker Board Squares

Rev-14: Figure Eights

Rev-15: Triangle and Square

Rev-16: Felt Letters

Rev-17: Magazine Letter Hunt

Chapter 10: Examples of Daily Lesson Plans

Glossary of Terms

Appendices

A: Questionnaire

B: Important Names and Addresses

Index

Biography

Kenneth A. Lane, OD is a doctor of optometry and a fellow with the College of Optometrists in Vision Development. Since his first book, Reversal Errors: Theories and Therapy Procedures, in 1988, Dr. Lane has published Developing Your Child for Success, and a series of workbooks that deal with eye tracking and perception. He started the Lane Learning Center to help learning-disabled children in 1980. Visual Attention in Children: Theories and Activities is the result of 3 years of research. Dr. Lane lives with his wife, Janet, in north Texas and spends his leisure time in Ruidoso, New Mexico.

"Professionals who are looking for a way to assess and address a variety of fine motor and visual perception deficiencies will welcome this workbook into their practices. The book will be of help to parents and teachers as well."

— Savannah Jones, Review Editor, SirReadaLot.org "...if you are in need of suggested activities and possible ways of developing interventions, this text can serve as a starting point."

— Leonard G. Trujillo, PhD, OTR/L, East Carolina University Occupational Therapy in Healthcare