Gross Motor
Gross motor skills
What are abilities that let us do tasks that involve large muscles in our torso, legs, and arms?
Fine motor skills
What are movements that require coordination of the fingers, hands, and wrists to complete everyday tasks?
Oral motor skills
Refer to the functions of the tongue, lips, jaw, cheeks, and the hard and soft palate
Visual motor skills
What is enables an individual to process the information around them which includes a coordination of visual motor information that is perceived and processed?
Executive functioning skills
Gross motor skills are related to other abilities
What is balance, coordination, body awareness, physical strength, and reaction time?
This is a fine motor skill
What is brushing your teeth, writing with a pencil, using utensils, cutting with a knife or scissors, buttoning a shirt, zipping a zipper, typing, turning a key, turning a doorknob, tying shoelaces, etc.?
voluntary eating patterns, crying or vowel sounds, and smiling
What is birth to 3 months?
Visual motor skills involve several areas
What is visual processing skills, visual perceptual skills, and eye-hand coordination?
What is emotional control, task initiation, task completion, working memory, planning, prioritizing, processing speed, organization, attention, self-monitoring, impulse control, cognitive flexibility, foresight, hindsight, self-talk, problem solving, persistence, and shift?
stand with support and may start to stand unassisted
At this age the child is able to hold a crayon
What is 1 - 2 years old?
Eating upright
What is 3 to 7 months?
Visual processing skills
What is includes how the eyes move and collect information?
Cognitive flexibility
What is the ability to shift attention mid-task, thinking about things in a new or different way, adapting to changes, adjusting in problem solving, and incorporating new information into plans or ideas?
Sits without support
What is six months?
What is 4 - 5 years old?
What is 12 to 15 months?
Visual perceptual skills
What is the ability to make sense of what we see?
Common impulses seen in kids that struggle with impulse control
What is speaking out, interrupting others, quitting games, shoving in lines, cutting in front of others, jumping up from seat, physical impulses, and personal boundary issues?
What is 2 months?
At this age a child is able to write their first and last name
What is 5 - 6 years old?
Symptoms of oral motor problems
What is weak suck, difficulty drinking from a straw, difficulty eating solid foods, food falling from a child's mouth, liquid dripping from the mouth when drinking, gagging or choking, excessive drooling, taking long periods to eat, and slow chewing?
Red flags for visual motor
What is letter reversal, poor line awareness in handwriting, poor margin use in written work, difficulty copying written work, difficulty catching or kicking a ball, trouble with movement games like hopscotch, clumsiness, difficulty with sports, difficulty drawing or copying shapes, difficulty with puzzles, and poor pencil control when writing?
Foresight and hindsight
What is foresight: the ability to predict and prepare for the future; and hindsight: the ability to learn from the past?