Evaluations
Occupational Therapy evaluations address the following areas:
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Fine Motor Skills: hand dominance, dexterity, pencil grasp, self-care tasks such as feeding, dressing, manipulating fasteners and tying shoes.
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Gross Motor Skills: muscle strength, postural control, balance, coordination, jumping and climbing.
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Motor Planning/Praxis: conceiving, planning, sequencing and executing actions for new/unfamiliar motor tasks.
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Sensory Processing: the process in the nervous system that takes in sensory information from our environment and produces an adaptive response.
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Visual-Motor Skills/Handwriting: cutting, coloring, tracing and copying, handwriting and keyboarding.