How Learnigo Advances Your OT Toolkit

As a pediatric occupational therapist, you may find yourself hulling around toys, worksheets, games, writing and cutting utensils, sensory solutions, and so much more throughout your day!

Learnigo can ease the load with our easily accessible activities. Just open any Learnigo activity on a web browser to target various OT goals on your tablet, laptop or computer, smartphone or interactive whiteboard.

Even add in some of your other tools for a new twist to your treatment! Learnigo is versatile to meet your needs, whether using for individual treatment, group setting, or telehealth.

Learnigo is a terrific program for Occupational Therapist’s to use with assistive tools and adaptive setting features! Whether you pair an activity with an assistive tech tool, need to adapt the digital activity itself, or provide additional multisensory cueing—we provide increased accessibility for your student’s needs!

Here’s How:

1) Combine your favorite tool with one of our interactive programs! Adaptive tools and devices easily combine with our activities and games to provide support to children while adding a fun twist.

Some tools to use with our programs include:

- Gripper on stylus
- Writing weight
- Tablet on slant board
- Built up handle

2) Our programs are adaptable, allowing you to increase or decrease verbal and visual cues to meet the child’s needs. Some children improve performance with increasing or limiting external cues.

Our program adapts activities by letting you choose to:

- Have directions read aloud by program versus read only
- Provide visual rewards and auditory feedback for correct responses
- Provide visual feedback and auditory feedback for incorrect responses
- Provide a “hint” for the activity
- Hide distractions, such as navigation arrows and instructions, to help the child focus on the activity

3) Edit the visual display for children with visual, attention, or processing challenges. This may be done within individual program games, as well as browser-based plug-ins and settings.

This may include:

- Increasing the marker size for writing tools for the activity
- Adding contrasting colors, borders and outlines within the program
- Using a smartboard display for larger visual size or to address visual accommodation while seated at desk
- Adjusting overall screen contrast colors
- Increasing size on tablet via zoom

Learnigo Can Team-up With Your Favorite Supports

Learnigo can easily be used with your favorite self-regulation, sensory, and environmental supports. Due to convenient portability, our program fits into established habits and preferences of students, such as:

Sensory Supports:

Weighted items: vests, lap weights, etc.
Integrating heavy work exercises between activities
Movement breaks
Deep breaths

Self-regulation Supports:

Visual timer
Visual schedule
Rewards: verbal, stickers, songs, etc.
Attention: fidgets, written or picture directions

Environmental Supports:

Adaptive seating: wedge, wiggle seat
Positional: standing, laying down, using on sensory equipment
Using as part of an obstacle course
Reducing clutter in room

Learnigo’s OT Programs and Your OT tools

Combine Learnigo programming with assistive technology and adaptive tools you use every day! Our activities can support what you may already be using in sessions, the classroom, or home.

Our OT-specific programs include: Handwriting, Focus and Memory, and Visual Perception. With the just-right challenge, matched with novel activities, Learnigo helps promote growth and development!

Handwriting: Easily combine our online activities with handwriting tools, such as a stylus. You can also pair our printable worksheets with adaptive scissors and writing utensils. Instead of a writing utensil, finger isolation can be used for hand-eye coordination and intrinsic hand strengthening!

Focus & Memory: Decrease distractions for improved focus and recall by editing activity displays, verbal and visual cuing, or even pair with your own tools such as headphones, playing calming music, sunglasses/dimmed lights.

Visual Perception: Address oculomotor or perceptual skills by editing the program visual display, choosing from a variety of colors, patterns, digital drawing tool sizes, etc. You can also display these activities on a larger screen such as an interactive whiteboard or desktop.

Explore More Learnigo Programs

Your most common OT tools and accommodations also pair well with other Learnigo programs, such as our Life Skills and ADHD activities. These programs address older children, and work well with individual or group sessions.

Life skills: Level up your self-regulation, emotion and thinking strategies by coupling your calming and organizational tools with our programs—such as adding in your preferred hand fidgets and breathing techniques. This program is especially created for older students (ages 10+).

ADHD: Enhance attention and impulsivity skill building by combining these activities with your favorite focus supports, such as a visual timer, visual schedule, written or visual directions, or sensory items.This program is divided into support for younger students (ages 6-10) and older students (ages 11+).

Learnigo’s programs easily team-up with your ready-to-use assistive tools.

Trial our programs to put a new twist on the items already in your toolbox!

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