How to Improve Spatial Awareness What is Spatial Awareness

if you find that your kid or even yourself Anna is bumping into walls all the time or tripping or having hard time figuring out how close something is to their face they can have problem with spatial awareness this is neurodiversopedia let's talk about it spatial awareness is that idea of you knowing exactly where things are and space around you how far away is the door how far away is that wall as you're walking toward it spatial awareness is something that you might not even know they struggle with if you're just helping them do everything for them so really great thing you can do at home to see how your kid does with their spatial awareness is give them an instruction and then watch really carefully how their body moves and how many times it takes them to measure something correctly for kids who have an AAC device which by the way goalie has great AAC app that lot of kids use when they're early language Learners you can practice phrases over and over again and watch how their fingers Glide across page and how many times it takes them to actually correctly place their finger on the spot that the word is on the screen this is called practicing motor planning which also has to do with spatial awareness at the end of the day spatial awareness is really important for kids as they learn how to play sports and make friends and dance and do all the things with their body that you want them to do to be successful and independent did that help you understand the term if yes give us thumbs up or subscribe below if it didn't then leave us comment and tell us why what are we missing we always want to do better this is project by goalie check us out at getgoalie.com