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This blog post explains the importance of motor planning (written by a mother of student who uses AAC)

Article about the use of Microsoft Kinect by therapists to help improve motor function in students/patients.

Playing Fraction Hopscotch provides a low tech, multisensory way for students to practice ordering fractions and equivalent fractions during gross motor activities. Students can walk, jump, crawl, or sit and scoot on the fraction squares!

Research Insights Into LAMP (Language Acquisition through Motor Planning) Ben Satterfield Center for AT Excellence GA Tools for Life

The results of this research add to the evidence regarding the effectiveness of using AAC with people with an ASD (Mirenda, 2001; Schlosser & Blischak, 2001), and adds to the knowledge of why AAC systems are potentially beneficial for children with autism, (The National Standards Report). Effective teaching of motor plans, using the LAMP theory, can be seen to allow for increased storage and retention of symbolic information, resulting with more automatic communication over time, and reducing the cognitive demands associated with analysing and choosing from different symbol sets, as described in the LAMP Manuals (Halloran and Emerson, 2006: Halloran and Halloran, 2012).

"Bookmaking is one of the most satisfying literacy experiences an adult can share with a child. The process of creating a book promotes oral language and fine motor skills, while developing many important literary concepts."

"The purpose of the NJC is to advocate for individuals with significant communication support needs resulting from intellectual disability, that may coexist with autism, sensory and/or motor limitation."

"The Milk Jug Crayon/Marker Holder is a clever way to modify writing utensils for individuals who have fine motor difficulties." The Oklahoma AT Center provides instructions (with photos) for creating the holders.

Episode #109 features a discussion of the approach to augmentative / alternative communication known as Language Acquisition through Motor Planning (LAMP).

Video overview of Minspeak and motor planning

How to adapt a motorized car for students with impairments that impact the ability to physical operation.

The University of Delaware's GoBabyGo project modifies off-the-shelf toy cars to provide mobility and independence to children who have difficulty moving on their own.

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There are four videos on this website. Each video demonstrates a learned motor pattern over time ending with a video on using an augmentative communication device with core vocabulary.

Research supporting the use of LAMP

Mats for using Playdoh for manipulatives, creating and fine motor.

The Kaufman Children's Center For Speech, Language, Sensory-Motor, and Social Connections, Inc. provides specialized speech and language therapy, occupational therapy and sensory integration services

Page fluffers are helpful in fostering independent literacy skills. Page fluffers are simple adaptations made to books or other reading material that make pages more accessible to turn. Page fluffers increase the space between the pages of a book, allowing those with limited fine motor skills to get their fingers between each page therefore making it easier to turn a page. You can use a variety of different materials to make page fluffers. A fluffer can be glued, taped, or clipped to the corner of each page.

Combining fine motor, matching and spelling! A great task for students!

Great use for pool noodles for teaching patterns, spelling, chunking etc.! Great for fine motor and other uses.