Developmental Delay
The term developmental delay refers to when a child does not achieve developmental milestones within the normal age range.
Dyspraxia (Motor Planning challenges)
A neurological disorder that affects an individual's ability to plan and process motor tasks.
Fine Motor Skills
Small movements — such as picking up small objects and holding a spoon — that use the small muscles of the fingers, toes, wrists, lips, and tongue.
Gross Motor Skills
Bigger movements — such as rolling over and sitting — that use the large muscles in the arms, legs, torso, and feet.
Executive Functioning
A set of processes that all have to do with managing oneself and one's resources in order to achieve a goal.
ADLs
Activities related to personal care. They include bathing or showering, dressing, getting in and out of bed or a chair, walking, using the toilet, and eating.
Functional skills
Skills that are needed in everyday life for normal functions like getting dressed and standing up from a chair.
Working Memory
A system for temporarily storing and managing the information required to carry out complex cognitive tasks such as learning, reasoning, and comprehension.
Play Skills
Activities performed for self-amusement that have behavioral, social, and psychomotor rewards.
Emotional Regulation
The ability to respond to the ongoing demands of experience with the range of emotions in a manner that is socially tolerable and sufficiently flexible to permit spontaneous reactions as well as the ability to delay spontaneous reactions as needed.