School Readiness Skills
Express wants/needs/ideas
Communication
Eating, dressing, hygiene
Preschool ADL's
Ability of brain to mold/adapt
Plasticity
Visually guided hand use
Hand-eye coordination
Grasp for large and heavy objects
Power grasp
Period of motor activity/physical interaction
Sensorimotor Period
Skills necessary to go to school
Self-care skills
Improved speed of information processing (neglect of certain brain processes not in use)
Pruning
Equilibrium reactions
Used for small and light objects (develops through during preschool years)
Period demonstated by use of words, symbols, and imagination
Pre-operational Period
Picking up toys, setting the table
Preschool IADL's
A condition that affects how your brain processes sensory information (stimuli).
Sensory Processing Disorder (SPD)
Center of mass over base of support
Postural Stability
The ability to keep the body balanced and aligned
Postural stability
Playing seperately but side by side
Parallel Play
By this point a child should be independent in basic personal care
Out of preschool years
Ability to determine what an object is without looking at it.
Haptic Touch
Force, speed, and control of movements
Calibration
Complex patterns involving rotational movements along the body axis to maintain balance.
Equilibrium reaction
The ability to regulate responses
Executive Attention
"No me do it"
Desire for independence
THEORY of brain-behavior relationships that allow us to interact and respond to our enviornment in purposeful ways after organizing sensory information
Ayres Sensory Integration
Rapid Changes in eye position
Saccadic
Using both hands for different actions in a complementary way
Complementary two hand use