Dyspraxia
Children with DCD often struggle with this academic skill due to poor fine motor coordination.
What is handwriting?
The Bruininks-Oseretsky Test of Motor Proficiency (BOT-2) evaluates these two main motor skills associated with Dyspraxia.
What are fine and gross motor skills?
This assistive tool can help children with DCD improve their handwriting legibility.
What is adapted paper or weighted pencils?
This assessment tool helps occupational therapists understand how a child responds to sensory input across different settings like home and school.
What is the Sensory Processing Measure–2 (SPM-2)?
CVI is caused by damage to...
To the brain (specifically, the visual processing centers)
Name two everyday activities that children with DCD may struggle with due to motor coordination challenges.
What are dressing and participating in sports?
The success of intervention strategies for DCD is largely dependent on the involvement of these two groups.
What are parents and teachers?
This sensory-based intervention focuses on improving body awareness, balance, and proprioceptive processing.
What is Sensory Integration (SI) therapy?
This OT frame of reference uses fun, child-led, multi-sensory activities involving vestibular, proprioceptive, and tactile input to promote adaptive responses and improve participation in daily occupations.
What is the Sensory Integration (SI) frame of reference?
True or False: Children with CVI are completely blind
False – CVI exists on a spectrum and many children retain some functional vision
True or False: Dyspraxia is more prevalent in girls than boys.
False. Challenges in praxis is 7 times more likely to appear in boys than girls.
(Castellucci & Singla, 2024)
This tool captures the child and family's perspectives on participation challenges in daily activities.
What is the Canadian Occupational Performance Measure (COPM)?
Parents may be encouraged to facilitate these two types of outdoor activities to support sensory-motor engagement at home.
What are bike riding and jumping on a trampoline?
This program helps children understand their level of alertness and learn ways to manage their energy and reactions to sensory input like sound, touch, and movement.
What is the Alert Program?
Name two adaptive behavior assessments appropriate for CVI
Vineland Adaptive Behavior Scales (Vineland-3), Adaptive Behavior Assessment System (ABAS-3)
Children with DCD often experience these two types of challenges beyond motor coordination.
What are social and emotional difficulties?
This assessment tool evaluates manual dexterity, aiming and catching, and balance skills.
What is the Movement Assessment Battery for Children (MABC-2)?
Sensory Integration therapy often incorporates this type of childhood activity to improve vestibular processing.
What is swinging?
This popular cognitive-behavioral program uses four color-coded zones to help children recognize and manage their emotional states.
What are the Zones of Regulation?
What is the purpose of combining direct and indirect assessments in CVI evaluation?
To capture both functional vision use and its impact on daily participation through a holistic perspective
Research suggests that children with DCD often have challenges with this type of sensory processing.
What is proprioceptive processing?
This direct assessment assesses sensory integration skills that support learning and behavior (subtests include: visual, tactile, kinesthetic, and motor tasks).
What is Ayres' Sensory Integration and the Sensory Integration & Praxis Tests (SIPT)?
This evidence-based intervention teaches children to use self-discovery and guided problem-solving to improve motor performance.
What is the Cognitive Orientation to daily Occupational Performance (CO-OP) approach?
This observational and interview-based tool indirectly assesses self-regulation by evaluating coping skills, adaptability, and behavior regulation in its social-emotional and adaptive behavior domains.
What is the Developmental Assessment of Young Children, Second Edition (DAYC-2)?
What are two common causes of CVI?
Perinatal hypoxia, traumatic brain injury, intraventricular hemorrhage, and neurodevelopmental disorders (Chang & Borchert, 2020)