Coordination is an important part of your child’s development. There are different types of coordination, including fine motor coordination (small movements of the hand), gross motor coordination (larger body movements), and motor planning (how the brain and body work together to create movement).

Sensory Processing is how a person perceives information from their senses (sight, smell, sound, taste, touch, balance, body awareness). A child can be sensory seeking (need constant stimulation), sensory avoidant (have extreme or upsetting reactions to even very mild stimulation), or sensory challenged (difficulty detecting, interpreting, and recognizing the sensory input).

Social emotional development is important for developing positive relationships, behaving ethically, and handling challenging situations effectively. The specific skills that allow kids to function and complete daily occupations are those social emotional skills that help children to recognize and manage emotions, interact with others, think about their feelings and how they should act, and regulate behavior based on thoughtful decision making.

Cognitive skills are the core skills your brain uses to think, read, learn, remember, reason, and pay attention. These crucial skills enable children to process sensory information and eventually learn to evaluate, analyze, remember, make comparisons and understand cause and effect. 

Strength is important to enable children to perform every day functions such as fine motor skills (e.g. holding a pencil appropriately, cleaning teeth), gross motor skills (e.g. carrying heavy school bags, walking, running, skipping, playground skills such as climbing, and sporting skills such as  catching, throwing and hitting a ball with a bat). 

Visual Motor Integration involves effective, efficient communication between the eyes and the hands, so that a child is able to copy, draw or write what they see. Children who struggle to integrate or coordinate their visual systems and their motor systems may struggle with handwriting as well as with other school skills.

Pediatric self care skills refer to the everyday activities of daily living (ADL’s) that children undertake in order to participate in life activities.

Some examples of pediatric self care skills include getting dressed, eating, brushing teeth, brushing hair​, bathing, using the toilet, etc.