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- Pencil grip
- Handwriting adaptations
- Pencil/crayon control
in writing and
drawing
- Space & letter
formation/orientation
to
lines
- Hand/finger
strength/stability
- Wrist &/or
forearm control
- Postural/shoulder
stability
- Hand/finger speed
& dexterity
- Finger isolated
movements
- Tweezers, scissors,
tool usage
- Determination
of hand dominance
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What
to look out for in your child:
- No interest in or
avoidance of fine motor
skills
- Awkward or poor pencil
grasp
- When writing or
coloring, lines are wavy
- Poor scissors skills
such difficulties
staying on the line
or jagged work.
- Clumsy grasp &
release skills,
frequently
dropping items
- Difficulty holding
small objects
- Difficulties
manipulating tools, pencils
or
scissors
- Agonizing over
completing mazes,
dot-to-dots,
etc.
- Difficulty copying
text from white board
or
blackboard
- Difficulties with shoe
tying, buttoning
- Frequent switching of
the hand used
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Sensory
Processing |
- Sensory diets are
established at home
and/or
school based on
the child's individual needs
- Treatment is focused
on the integration
of
the sensory systems
including following areas: movement (vestibular), pull of gravity
(vestibular), touch (tactile), mouth (oral motor),
sight and sound.
- Children are taught
specific strategies
for
use
in maintaining or regaining
self-control
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What
to look out for in your child:
- Over or under
sensitivity to touch,
movement,
sights or sounds
- Easily distracted from
work or activities
- Activity level is
unusually high (always
moving) or unusually
low (lethargic, disinterested)
- Impulsiveness, poor
judgment
- Clumsiness
- Delays in language or
motor skills
- Emotionally reactive
- Difficulties relating
to peers or family
- Difficulties with
changes, wants
items/routines to stay the
same
- Inability or
difficulty in calming self
- Academic Delays
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Motor
Planning/Coordination |
- Ball skills - throwing
& catching,
hitting ball
- Balance: Balancing on
one leg, hopping,
walking on a balance
beam
- Coordination of body
sides: difficulty
skipping or dancing
- Postural reactions to
maintain balance on
a
moving surface
- Laterality/Directionality
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What
to look out for in your child:
- Flinching when
catching a ball or
avoidance
of playing catch
- Clumsiness
- Fearful of gross motor
activities
- Fearful of having
their feet leave the
ground
- Difficulty
coordinating body sides, moves
awkwardly
- Poor endurance
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Visual
Processing/Perception |
- Visual motor - the
ability of the hand and
eyes to smoothly
work together to guide hand movements
- Visual figure ground -
being able to find
"hidden" figures
among a busy background
- Visual memory -
measuring the child's
ability
to remember
previously shown shapes
- Visual discrimination
- finding
similarities
and differences
among similar figures
- Visual sequential
memory - remembering a
series of forms
and choosing the series from among similar series
- Visual constancy - the
ability of the
child
to recognize
a symbol as being the same in spite of being resized or rotated
- Eye movements/Visual
pursuits - the
ability
of the child
to smoothly track with his eyes the movement of objects or symbols
- Copying from far and
near
- Visual spatial
relationships - being able
to
identify reversals
of objects or shapes
- Body awareness -
familiarity with body
parts and relation of self to environment
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What
to look out for in your child:
- Difficulty in
recognizing letters and
with
letter production
- Reversals of letters
or numbers, (such as
b
for d and p for
q)
- Inattention or
distractibility to writing
or
reading tasks
- Difficulty copying
from a blackboard or
white
board
- Poor at following
instructions
- Directionality
confusion moving around
environments
- Difficulties
understanding the layout of
math
problems and
math worksheets which can interfere with learning of math concepts
- When compared his or
her peers, pictures
drawn
are
immature and
unrefined
- Immature drawings of
people compared to
peers
- Poor eye contact
- Loses his place
frequently or skips words
while reading
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Self-Care |
- Dressing skills
- (put on and take
of)
clothing, shoes
& socks
- Strategies and ideas
for sequences/cues
to
use when dressing
- Hygiene: basic
grooming (hair and tooth
brushing)
- Eating; utensil grasp,
bilateral
coordination
of knife and
fork
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What
to look out for in your child:
- Dressing: clothes put
on backwards, shoes
put
on the wrong
feet
- Food is pushed off the
edge of the plate
- Food falls off of
eating utensils
- Messy eaters
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Social
Skills |
- Cooperative play/sharing
skills
- Development of leisure
activities
- Development of
self-esteem
- Attention
- Listening skills
- Following directions
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What
to look out for in your child:
- Poor body language
- Withdrawal from social
situations
- Lack of group
interaction (or avoidance
of)
- Lack of confidence in
oneself
- Poor eye contact
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