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Child assembling wooden stacking toy with green rings near shape sorter and colorful stacking rings on table
OT Tip Sheet: Visual Memory

Visual memory supports learning by helping children recall what they see. Strengthen it through games, drawing from memory, and activities that reinforce detail retention.

Boy drinking water at a table with drawings, holding a blue pen in one hand.
OT Tip Sheet: Drinking from an Open Cup

Introduce cup drinking by modeling each step, starting with spoon sips, progressing to small controlled cups, encouraging independence, and ensuring safe posture and slow pacing.

Baby in high chair being fed with a spoon by an adult, food around mouth.
OT Tip Sheet: Feeding Tips for Babies 6-12 months

Support safe, enjoyable feeding with readiness-based textures, responsive mealtime routines, allergy awareness, and gradual food introduction while encouraging independence and monitoring for choking or gagging.

Hands holding a partially unrolled toilet paper roll against a blue background
OT Tip Sheet: Wiping after Toileting

Wiping promotes hygiene and independence. Teach clear steps, offer guided practice, and support motor skills with adaptive tools, visual cues, and fun skill-building activities.

Toddler in a diaper sitting on a green potty chair on a wooden floor with a plain background
OT Tip Sheet: Toilet Training

Toilet training builds independence and body awareness. Support success with routines, readiness cues, calm guidance, rewards, and thoughtful modifications for comfort, consistency, and hygiene.

Young boy outdoors crouching on gravel path tying red shoelaces on dark hiking shoes.
OT Tip Sheet: Shoelace Tying Skills

Tying shoelaces builds independence, coordination, and fine motor skills. Use two-handed play, backward chaining, and fun methods like the ‘bunny ear’ technique.

Person's hand pulling up the zipper on a dark jacket
OT Tip Sheet: Zipper Skills

Zipper skills support dressing independence and develop fine motor control. Practice two-handed tasks, imitation, and backward chaining to build coordination, strength, and confidence.

Young girl buttoning a white shirt with candy and ice cream illustrations indoors.
OT Tip Sheet: Button Skills

Button skills build dressing independence and fine motor strength. Practice with two-handed activities, large buttons, and backward chaining to support control, coordination, and confidence.

Blank spiral sketchbook with colored pencils, markers, scissors, and paint containers on blue surface
OT Tip Sheet: Setting Up a Grade 2 Classroom

Design a supportive Grade Two classroom with varied tools, visual cues, flexible seating, clear routines, and movement breaks to enhance independence, focus, and motor development.