Fine Motor Skills refer to the small movements of the hands, wrists, fingers, feet, toes, lips, and tongue. Fine motors skills also include one’s level of dexterity, coordination, and strength in the hands and fingers.
Visual Perception is one’s ability to recognize, organize, interpret, and remember visual images.
Gross Motor Skills refers to one’s ability to use large muscles in the arms and legs to move. Gross motor skills include our ability to roll, crawl, walk, run & jump. Gross Motor Skills are important for the development of fine motor skills. These skills include fastening buttons, zippers, eating with a fork & knife, and printing, handwriting, typing & cutting.
Social Skills refers to one’s ability to interact in a socially acceptable and age-appropriate manner.
Sensory Processing refers to one’s ability to assimilate incoming sensory information (vision, hearing, smell, taste, touch, vestibular (movement), and proprioception (body awareness) and make an appropriate response or reaction.
Bilateral Integration is the ability to perform skills or make fluid movements with both sides of the body.
Eye-Hand Coordination (visual motor skills) refers to one’s ability to coordinate vision with the movements of the body in completing a task. In the case of writing and drawing, eye-hand coordination is indicative of how accurately one perceives and then reproduces the perception in a coherent and/ or age-appropriate manner.
Motor Planning (praxis) is the brain’s ability to conceive, plan and execute movements and sequential tasks.