Practice for coordination, planning and balance.
For children with DCD or dyspraxia: copy a pose, plan a path, hold still and trace a line, with the match, the hold and the steadiness of every move recorded.
The skills often on the plan
Each is one of occo’s six, with five levels and its own measures.
What a session looks like
A goal, how a game asks for it, and what each try records.
OT · Fingers
Isolating fingers for buttons, zips and a pencil grip
Shadow puppets asks for one hand shape after another to cast an animal’s shadow, and ends each block with a short round of opening and closing the hand.
RecordedHand shape matchTapping speedHelp neededOT · Fingers
Pre-writing strokes: a steady line from point to point
Trace the sky joins stars into a picture with one fingertip on a tablet, the line kept on the path between them.
RecordedStaying on the lineSmoothnessAimOT · Hands
Bilateral coordination: both arms into a pose, together
Mirror the Bear shows a pose, like both arms up in a V, and waits for the child to match it with their whole body in front of the camera.
RecordedPose matchHands togetherReach rangePT · Legs
Static balance: holding still in a pose
Mirror the Bear’s freeze rounds ask the child to hold the pose until the bear lets go, up to standing on one leg at its higher levels.
RecordedHolding steadyHelp neededOT · Eyes
Visual-motor integration: seeing the next target and reaching it
In Trace the sky the next star shows where the picture goes; the child finds it and touches it, and every touch is timed and placed.
RecordedReaction timeAimAccuracyOT · Legs
Motor planning: a path to plan, then cross
Cross the creek finds rubber stepping stones on the floor with the camera; the child lays them into a bridge, then steps across it.
Movements in steps they can plan
Every game starts simple and builds, so a child meets the next step only once the last one is theirs.
- Poses that build up to standing on one leg
- A path of stepping stones to plan, then cross
- Tracing that records how steady the line was
A program at their level, in the clinic and at home
Their therapist picks the skills, occo builds a program that starts where they are, and the same program plays on the family’s own screen.
- Built from the skills on their plan
- Starts at their level and rises across the days
- Adjusted from what each session recorded
A plan for your clinic or school, or your family
occo Business for the people who run the sessions, occo for a household.
Questions people ask
No. occo does not diagnose, treat or monitor any condition. Its skills and the way each is measured come from occupational therapy and ABA practice; it is play a therapist, a teacher or a family uses alongside the work a child already does.
Some games are built on it: Cross the creek and Step on mushrooms find rubber stepping stones on the floor with the camera, and the rest need only the floor in front of the screen.
A computer or tablet with a camera, the latest Google Chrome and a screen; a TV or projector over HDMI makes it room-sized. Nothing to install. Some games also use rubber stepping stones on the floor. The full list is in what you need.
Nowhere. Motion is tracked in the browser, so the picture becomes numbers on the device and video is never sent or saved. More in the camera and privacy.