Fine Motor Skills: 

Refers to the small muscles of the body such as in the hands and fingers to produce precise movements. Fine motor control is essential for efficient handling of classroom tools and materials.

 

Gross Motor Skills: 

Refers to coordinated body movements that involve large muscle groups. 

 

Motor Planning: 

The ability to take in, organize, sequence, and carry out an unfamiliar movement in a coordinated manner. 

 

Self-Help Skills: 

Being able to take care of your own needs, such as bathing, grooming, dressing, and eating.  

 

Sensory Processing Skills: 

The ability to recieve and interpret information from one’s body or the environment and make adaptive responses. This information is interpreted by the visual (sight), gustatory (taste), auditory (hearing), tactile (touch), proprioceptive (body position), and vestibular (movement and balance) systems. Often difficulties in sensory processing underlie difficulties in behavior, attention, relatedness, coordination and the ability to engage in routine tasks.

 

Visual Motor Integration Skills: 

The ability to integrate visual input and motor output. Difficulty in this area can result in problems with reaching, pointing, and grasping objects, as well as drawing, cutting, and difficulties in handwriting. 

 

Visual Perceptual Skills: 

The ability to interpret visual stimuli from your environment. These areas include visual discrimination, visual memory, visual spatial relationships, form constancy, visual sequential memory, figure-ground, and visual closure.