Your child has a motor handicap
Children with motor handicap or delay can have sensory processing disorder as well. They are less able to move correctly and therefore they are less able to react to different sensory stimuli.
They often have difficulty ‘feeling’ their body and their movements. As a result they gain less experience with feeling and moving as compared to other children. Although not all games described below are suitable for them, it is important to try out in which way it is pleasant for your child to be touched or moved.
The following activities and games may be suitable:
- Domestic activities
- Provide enough physical exercise
- The use of vibrating material
- Exercise pressure with a ball
- Lying on top of different materials
- Swaddling or wrapping up in a blanket
- Towing on a blanket
- Rolling, walking on your knees or on all fours over different materials
- Touching and moving on your lap
- Something to feel
- Hiding under cuddly toys
- Playing in a box
- Playing with shaving cream
- Playing with rice
- Playing with chestnuts
- Rubbing in body lotion
- Massage with different materials
- The use of the foot massage bath
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