This Skateboard Platform Swing offers a novel and engaging play experience, promoting the development of key occupational therapy goals.
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Sensory Integration:
- Vestibular Input: The swinging motion provides dynamic vestibular stimulation, enhancing balance, coordination, and spatial awareness. The unique platform allows for various movement patterns, further enhancing vestibular input.
- Proprioceptive Input: Shifting weight on the platform, gripping the rungs, and maneuvering within the swing provides proprioceptive input, which enhances body awareness and sensory regulation.
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Gross Motor Skills:
- Balance and Coordination: This swing significantly challenges balance, coordination, and agility as users attempt to maintain their balance while swinging.
- Strength: Utilizing the swing requires core and upper body strength, particularly for initiating and maintaining the swinging motion and shifting weight.
- Motor Planning: Planning and executing movements on the platform requires motor planning and cognitive flexibility.
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Play and Engagement:
- Intrinsic Motivation: The novelty and challenge of the skateboard swing provide intrinsic motivation for children to engage in physical activity.
- Occupational Performance: This swing enhances a child's ability to participate in play activities and develop gross motor skills, which are crucial aspects of occupational performance.
This Skateboard Platform Swing is a valuable tool for promoting sensory integration, gross motor development, and play engagement in children.
Note: This description emphasizes the therapeutic potential of the Skateboard Platform Swing within an occupational therapy framework, highlighting key features such as its impact on sensory integration, gross motor skills, and overall occupational performance. It utilizes more precise and professional terminology, such as "vestibular stimulation," "proprioceptive input," and "motor planning."
Disclaimer: This description is for informational purposes only and should not be considered medical advice. Consult with a qualified occupational therapist or other healthcare professional for personalized recommendations.
Specs | |
Product group | Residential |
Product type | Skateboard swing |
Dimensions | 78 x 20 x 1 |