Evaluating Sensory-Motor Skills

 

Preliminary assessment

A preliminary assessment will be conducted to determine whether or not a child is a candidate for the program and a person who may benefit from the program. The students will be asked to demonstrate natural basic tasks based on his/her age level.

Full assessment

Once a child has been accepted for the program, he/she will be evaluated through a video taping session. During the taping session, the child will be asked to perform every physical and perceptual movement since birth (crawling, creeping, walking, etc.). After the evaluation is completed, the video tape will be reviewed thoroughly by Dr. Youssefi and the child’s parents. Based upon the development patterns required for the child’s specific age, motor and sensory deficits, a lesson plan will be developed. The duration and intensity of the lesson plan will be based upon the severity of the child’s need.

Who Would Benefit?

Children who exhibit the following:

• Low muscle tone, poor fitness, poor posture
• Audio-Motor Processing delays
• Language delays
• Perceptual Motor difficulties
• Vestibular and proprioceptive abnormalities (motion sickness, poor balance, fear of heights, poor organization skills)
• Apraxia
• Dyspraxia
• Poor directional awareness
• Difficult coordination
• Visual Motor processing delays