Swinging into Playtime!
Here are some quick tricks and tips regarding vestibular play for your child:
- This system provides the sense of balance and spatial orientation of your body when producing movement and coordination.
- Helps us to move smoothly and maintain our sense of balance when changing our body positions in space.
- If this system is damaged a child may experience:
- Dizziness
- Sequencing deficits
- Decreased coordination/balance
- Vision/hearing changes
- Proprioceptive deficits
- Poor equilibrium
- And more
- Dizziness
- Play activities to promote the development of your child’s vestibular system:
- Balance beam
- Yoga poses
- Leg frog
- Hopscotch
- Jumping on a trampoline
- Swinging on different swings in all directions(prone, seated, linear, rotary)
- Angular & horizontal movement activities
- Rolling
- Sliding down a playground slide
- And many more!
- Read about different type of vestibular swings in a previous blog post!
