Sports-tastic Activity Center: Kids Slide Step 2
- Tandem
- Nov 20, 2022
- 2 min read
This is a wonderful toy to help encourage sustained flexion. Sustained flexion helps to encourage the flexion posture vs the extension posture. Apraxic children overuse flexion.
You might have a slide at home. Just lower the slide to a manageable and safe height for these activities. The Sports-tastic Activity Center is great because:
The child climbs up the ladder. Your little is is forced come into a squat position in preparation for going down the slide. This is sustained flexion position we want the child to practice.
You can have your child stay in the position as long as tolerated. Please know this sustained flexion position will be difficult to maintain initially. It could make your child grump because this position is difficult.
Also watch for a “ Cheat”. Your little might find a creative way to avoid the flexion.
This picture is a child in extension
This is the flexion pattern. We want knees to chest as much as possible while going down the slide.
Why to do in the sustained flexion posture.?
A) While in sustained flexion patterns, you can practice your target sounds from your Speech Therapist
B) You can probe for vocabulary (up, down, go)
C) You can probe for prelinguistic patterns ( wheee or panting to pretend going up ladder was difficult)
Your child will Slide down the slide on their bum as much as possible Once your little reaches the end of the slide, try to encourage a good sitting posture with knees to chest and then encourage coming to stand. You might need to give support at the hips to encourage an appropriate sit to stand.
This is a picture of sustained flexion. When your child reaches end of the slide, this is the position we want to observe at the end of the slide
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