Visual Motor Skills
What are Visual Motor Skills:
What are Visual Motor Skills:
Visual Motor Skills involve the coordination of visual perceptual and motor skills. In the school setting, this skill is important to successfully complete pencil and paper tasks, cutting tasks, and much more.
Occupational Therapy works on this skill by using fun activities that assist with developing visual perceptual skills such as spatial relations, visual discrimination, visual scanning and tracking, sequencing, and visual memory skills with fine motor activities to improve coordination of what is seen and the motor response that is needed to successfully complete the task.
Activities to try at home:
Activities to try at home:
- Complete mazes- try to stay on the path!
- Copy shapes, letters, and lines- use step by step drawing books
- Play games that require student to glance at multiple letters/digits/symbols, cover up and repeat orally or write what was seen
- Practice cutting- start with thicker paper such as old cards, snipping straws, play doh and progress to simple lines, curved lines, and simple shapes
- Complete puzzles- encourage looking and figuring out what part of the pictures on each piece before placement