The 2011 SMILE Enrollment Application is now available. Click here to download the application and click to view the Tuition Agreement.
Sensory Smart Newsletter Part 3: Fine Motor Skills and Handwriting
A significant amount of attention is given to handwriting as a skill. Despite its importance, very little attention has been placed on what gives rise to effective handwriting and what we can do to help promote it. Click here for more….
WELCOME
Sensory Motor Integration can be best described as a multi-sensory approach to addressing the needs of children who suffer from various developmental delays, low muscle tone, dyspraxia and attention deficits. By incorporating methodologies of sensory integration and perceptual motor development, the SMI approach enables children to sequentially and successfully acquire motor capabilities and motor planning skills. Our program builds upon two very key elements:
1. Sensory integration as a means to regulate and network the nervous system.
2. Motor development as the vehicle to achieve physical, cognitive, neuromuscular, and body awareness capabilities.
CHILDREN WHO EXHIBIT THE FOLLOWING
BENEFIT FROM OUR PROGRAMS:
- Low muscle tone, poor fitness, poor posture
- Auditory processing delays
- Language Delays
- Perceptual Motor difficulties
- Vestibular and proprioceptive abnormalities (motion sickness, poor balance, fear of heights, poor organizational skills)
- Poor directional awareness
- Delayed motor planning
- Visual processing delays