- Parent Knowledge and Skills
- Delayed Milestones
- Concern Regarding Global Developmental Delays or Children on the Autistic Spectrum
Development of fine motor skills
- Correct pencil grip
- Correct handling of scissors
- Grasping, manipulating and coordinated releasing of small objects
- Bilateral hand use
- Establishment of dominance
Development of gross motor skills
- Bilateral Integration (using both sides of body in a coordinated way as when doing starjumps)
- Balance
- Coordination and ball skills
- Stimulation of muscle tone
- Correct posture for optimal concentration when sitting at a desk
Development of Basic Concepts and Perceptual Skills
- Body Concept
- Directionality and Laterality
- Visual Perceptual Skills (visual discrimination, form constancy, spatial relations, figure ground, visual closure)
- Visual motor integration
- Reversing of letters and numbers
- Difficulty spacing letters, words and sentences
- Difficulty copying from the board
- Poor handwriting and other fine motor skills
- Low muscle tone and poor sitting posture
- Attention deficit and hyperactivity
- Difficulty with gross motor skills such as balance, coordination, rhythm, sequences and motor planning
- Difficulty organizing self and belongings (clumsy child)
- Poor socializing with peers; inappropriate social behaviour
- Poor self-esteem due to any of the above difficulties
- Alternative methods to medication
- In conjunction with medication
- Parent and teacher guidance and support
- ADD and ADHD
- Dyslexia
- Autism
- Global Developmental Delay
- Dyspraxia
- Down’s Syndrome