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Clinic Services
Visual Motor Program
Clinical studies have shown that difficulties with visual motor coordination have a significant effect on an individual’s ability to learn. Occupational therapists at Imagine a Child's Capacity offer a program for children with visual motor difficulties while providing parents and teachers tools to support this area of development. In most situations, visual motor programming can be added before and/or during tasks that are visually complex (such as reading or handwriting). A visit with a developmental optometrist may also be recommended.
Signs of Visual Motor Difficulties
The child may:
- Complain of headaches, itchy or watery eyes
- Frequently rub eyes
- Report that letters blur after reading for a short time
- Move head while reading
- Lose place when reading/writing
- Demonstrate a short attention span
- Refrain from participating in sports or gross motor activity
- Have difficulty with spacing, size, and legibility when writing
- Reverse letters when writing
- Write with head on the table when writing or reading
- Avoid homework
- Have difficulty finishing work on time
Occupational therapists target the following areas through Visual Motor Therapy:
- Vestibular/Proprioceptive Processing
- Body Awareness
- Coordination
- Laterality
- Hand-Eye Coordination
- Fine and Gross Motor Skills
- Visual Motor/Visual Perceptual Skills
- Environmental Adaptations
Frequency:
- This therapy typically involves an initial occupational therapy evaluation that includes a parent interview, testing the child in visual motor and visual perceptual skills and a vision screen. Sessions are generally 45-60 minutes weekly with daily home programming activities provided.