Re: [SPAM] Re: Crossing the midline---Please help---Janice

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GREAT Example!

I can just see Mark turning in my minds eye for that is EXACTLY what he would

do!

Even when he sits to write, he sits on the outside edge of the seat almost

slumping out of it.... not because he cannot sit on a chair properly but because

he wants to write without crossing the midline of his body (the rotter). That

is the extent to which our children avoid crossing their midline!

So cross-marching, cross-skipping, tai-kwondo, running classes are good for our

kids and get them to cross the midline.

Janice

[sPAM][ ] Re: Crossing the midline---Please

help---Janice

Liz,

Maybe I'm chiming in too late but our OT says the easiest test she

knows is to have a child stand in front of a huge paper on the wall,

give them a crayon, marker, whatever, and have them draw an infinity

sign (figure 8 on its side), big sized, using whatever hand they want.

If a child cannot cross midline, they will switch the pen from hand

to hand when they reach center OR they will turn their body towards

that opposite side so the arm doesn't cross. Hope that's somewhat

clear to understand...?

When they held still the body of the child in question and only

allowed him to use one hand, the right (hand he was using) side of the

" 8 " was perfect and the left side was a wiggly mess.

Darlene

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> > Hi Liz,

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> > If you want activities that help with crossing the midline, you can

> refer to a program called Brain Gym. THey use exercises/body

> movements that help with that specific issue.

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