Little Learners Child Development Center

Happy Mother’s Day to all moms.

To the biological moms.
The stepmoms.
The foster moms.
The bereaved moms.
The adoptive moms.
And the chosen

Some moms are celebrating today.
Some are grieving today.
Some are simply trying to make it through the day.

But every mother deserves to be acknowledged.

Happy Mother’s Day to every kind of mom.

©️Momming On Empty

As an occupational therapist, I look at color learning as more than just an early academic milestone. The ability to recognize colors, name colors, and use colors is directly connected to how a child participates in everyday activities. And, we use these skills in every therapy session!

Think about a typical therapy session: pick up the green craft pom poms and sort them into the green cup. This is a visual perceptual skill and we use these multi-step directions as part of our skill therapy interventions.

Or, maybe we use the colors of the Alert program when working on self-regulation. Then, we use color directions to work on handwriting skills (stop at the red baseline on modified paper).

Learning, viewing, recognizing, and manipulating objects of different colors is a therapy intervention strategy and functional task. Here's more on these milestones and how to support this skill: https://www.theottoolbox.com/learning-colors/