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Games & Activities to Help Eye Tracking Ball Swing Exercises – to develop the tracking of moving objects with both eyes focused on the moving point. o

Hang a ball (about 10cm diameter) with different stickers or coloured marks arranged all over it, so that your child has an interesting point to look for on the ball.

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The hung ball should be at about your child’s nose height when they stand in front of it.

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Ask your child to keep their head still and with their eyes follow the ball (use the stickers to give a watch point).

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Swing the ball gently from side to side and ask your child to watch the marker until the ball stops.

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Ask your child to lie on their back with their head underneath the ball.

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Swing the ball slowly in a large circle over their head.

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Keeping their head still and just using their eyes ask them to watch the marker until the ball stops.

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As their tracking ability improves try using a tennis ball, give the string a jerk so that the ball moves in random directions. Remind them to keep their head still and only move the eyes to follow the ball.

Thumbs up – to develop the tracking of moving objects with both eyes focused on the moving point. o

Ask your child to raise and stretch out one arm in front of them to shoulder height.

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Make a fist with the outstretched hand, with the thumb sticking out to the side.

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Twist the arm so that the thumb is pointing up to the sky.

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Make small circular movements with the thumb and keeping the head still ask them to follow the thumb with their eyes.

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Make larger circular movements with the arm so that the hand crosses the centre of the body (crossing the mid-line). Again ask them to follow the thumb with their eyes only.

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Swap arms and repeat as above starting with small circles and then big circles.

Flashlight Fun – to develop the tracking of moving objects with both eyes focused on the moving point and to search and then focus on a point.

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Make sure your child is happy to be in a dark room before starting and explain what is going to happen next (it may help to give them a torch to make them feel a little more secure if they don’t like being in the dark).

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Use the torch light to make a track through the room, stopping on different objects for a few seconds.

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Ask your child to stand still and, keeping their head still, follow the light with their eyes only. When you stop on an object get them to tell you what it is.

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Then without making a track just light up an object, again your child keeps still and only uses their eyes to scan the room until you light up an object. They can then either tell you what the object is or use their own torch light to point at the object.

Near and Far – to develop the tracking of objects with both eyes on a shifting near and far focus point. ‘Spy Hole’ o

Identify a point on a far wall and one much closer in.

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Make a spy hole with the thumb and index finger.

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Holding the ‘spy hole’ away from the face look through it with both eyes at the far point for 10 seconds.

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Then covering each eye in turn look at the far point through the ‘spy hole’ for 10 seconds each.

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Next look at the near point through the ‘spy hole’ with both eyes for 10 seconds and then each eye for 10 seconds as before.

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With both eyes try looking through the ‘spy hole’ at the far point for 10 seconds and then the near point for 10 seconds.

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Then do the same with each eye for 10 seconds.

‘Pencil Push Ups’ o

Hold a pencil between the tips of the fingers and the thumb at arm’s length just below shoulder height and stare at it with both eyes for 10 seconds.

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Then bending at the elbow bring the forearm and hand up to a 90 degree angle and stare at the pencil again for 10 seconds.

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Move back to the outstretched position and repeat 10 times.

Flexibility Activities – to develop a more rapid and smoother tracking movement. ‘In and Out’

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Standing or sitting, ask your child to put their index finger up close to their face. They must be able to see the finger clearly, if it is too close it will appear blurred so move it further away.

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Ask them to slowly move the finger out away from their body keeping it at the same height and then slowly back in again. They must keep focused with both eyes on the finger the whole time.

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Repeat 10- 15 times.

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Ask your child to raise their hand until it is at nose level and about30 cm away from their face.

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Then spread the fingers out.

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Get them to look at the thumb first then move to the index, middle, ring and little fingers in turn.

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Then in a random order and changing the speed of your requests ask them to look at the finger you name.

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You can use your hand to be the focus hand, try using finger puppets to make the activity a little more interesting.

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