Sambhav Child Development Centre

Learning to walk with control, focus, and confidence

Gait training in front of a mirror is a simple but very effective technique where the patient walks while watching their own movements in a mirror. It uses visual feedback to help correct posture and walking pattern.

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🔹 Why use a mirror?
• Improves self-awareness of body position
• Helps correct abnormal gait patterns
• Enhances balance and coordination
• Encourages symmetry (equal weight on both legs)

How to do it
1. Stand the patient in front of a full-length mirror
2. Ask them to look straight and observe posture
3. Start slow walking while watching:
• Head position
• Shoulder alignment
• Step length
• Foot placement (heel-to-toe)
4. Give simple cues:
• “Stand straight”
• “Take equal steps”
• “Heel first, then toe”

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Learning the difference between yummy and healthy 😋🥦

This engaging activity focuses on helping children understand the difference between healthy and junk food. The child is presented with various food items and is asked to sort them into two categories—healthy and unhealthy. Through this hands-on task, children develop awareness about nutritious food choices while enhancing cognitive skills such as classification, reasoning, and decision-making. It also supports language development as children learn to name and discuss different foods. The activity encourages healthy habits in a fun, interactive, and meaningful way.

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Building towers, building skills 🏗️

This activity focuses on developing visual perception, color recognition, and imitation skills in a fun and engaging way. The child is presented with a reference image of a tower built using colored glasses and is encouraged to carefully observe the arrangement. By identifying the different colors and their sequence, the child then recreates the same tower using real glasses. This task promotes attention to detail, visual discrimination, and memory, as the child needs to recall and replicate the pattern accurately. Additionally, it enhances fine motor skills and hand-eye coordination while stacking the glasses with control and balance. The activity also supports problem-solving and planning abilities, as the child figures out how to match the structure step by step. Overall, it provides a meaningful learning experience that combines cognitive development with hands-on play, making the process both educational and enjoyable.

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Learning new words one picture at a time! 🧠✨

In this speech and language therapy activity, the therapist presents picture cards featuring common nouns to the child. The child is encouraged to carefully observe each image and verbally identify or name the object shown. This simple yet effective task plays a crucial role in enhancing expressive language skills, vocabulary development, and word retrieval abilities. By consistently practicing naming familiar objects, children improve their ability to communicate clearly and confidently. The activity also supports visual recognition, attention, and cognitive processing, making it a foundational exercise in early language intervention and speech therapy sessions.
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Listening, balancing, and matching—all in one fun activity! 🎯

This activity is designed to enhance a child’s balance, auditory processing, and motor coordination in a structured and engaging way. The child begins by standing on a central board, maintaining stability while focusing on the therapist’s verbal instructions. Using a stick, the child is required to drag a ring toward a specific colored square that matches the color name given by the therapist, promoting listening skills and color recognition. Once the ring reaches the correct target, the child must then follow another command to bring the ring back to the starting position on the board. This sequence not only challenges the child’s ability to coordinate movements while balancing but also strengthens attention, response to instructions, and overall body control.

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Learning colours through fun sorting! 🎨

In this activity, the child is given picture cards and asked to sort them according to the colour border on the table (red, yellow, and green). The child observes the colour of each card and places it in the correct colour area.
This activity helps develop colour recognition, visual discrimination, attention, and categorization skills while also improving fine motor coordination.



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Strong hands, strong focus!

In this activity, the child performs a wheelbarrow walk while completing a functional task. The child walks on their hands, picks a ball from a soccer cone, gives it to the therapist, then turns the cone and places the ball on it. This activity helps improve core strength, upper body stability, bilateral coordination, motor planning, and focus.

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Finger walking challenge! 👆👆

In this activity, the child uses two fingers to follow the pathways simultaneously on both sides. It helps develop bilateral coordination, visual tracking, motor planning, and concentration, making it a great brain gym exercise for children.

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