{"id":85,"date":"2020-03-18T16:45:03","date_gmt":"2020-03-18T20:45:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/sandera1\/?page_id=85"},"modified":"2020-03-20T15:22:59","modified_gmt":"2020-03-20T19:22:59","slug":"visual-motor","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/sandera1\/visual-motor\/","title":{"rendered":"Visual Motor"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What Are Visual Motor Skills?<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Visual motor skills involve the ability of coordinating the body&#8217;s movements based on what the eyes perceive. These skills are necessary for efficient use of the hands and eyes together to perform school based activities such as: copying letters, forming shapes, or replicating patterns. They are made up different areas: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Visual Processing Skills- How the eyes move and take in information<\/li><li>Visual Perceptual Skills- How we make sense of what we are seeing. <\/li><li>Eye-Hand Coordination- How we use visual input to coordinate hand movements<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Click on this great resource for more information: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theottoolbox.com\/visual-motor-skills\/\">https:\/\/www.theottoolbox.com\/visual-motor-skills\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Visual Motor Red Flags <\/h4>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Letter reversals<\/li><li>Poor line awareness in handwriting<\/li><li>Poor margin use in written work<\/li><li>Difficulty copying written work<\/li><li>Trouble recognizing patterns and completing hands-on math problems<\/li><li>Difficulty catching or kicking a ball<\/li><li>Trouble with movement games like hopscotch.<\/li><li>Clumsiness\u00a0<\/li><li>Difficulty with sports<\/li><li>Difficulty drawing and copying pictures or shapes<\/li><li>Puzzles<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Strengthening Visual Motor Skills: Activity Ideas  <\/h4>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-file aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/sandera1\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3241\/2020\/03\/Visual-Motor-Activities.docx\">Visual-Motor-Activities<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/sandera1\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3241\/2020\/03\/Visual-Motor-Activities.docx\" class=\"wp-block-file__button\" download>Download<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What Are Visual Motor Skills? Visual motor skills involve the ability of coordinating the body&#8217;s movements based on what the eyes perceive. These skills are necessary for efficient use of the hands and eyes together to perform school based activities such as: copying letters, forming shapes, or replicating patterns. They are made up different areas: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2594,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-85","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/sandera1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/85","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/sandera1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/sandera1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/sandera1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2594"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/sandera1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/sandera1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/85\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":156,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/sandera1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/85\/revisions\/156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/sandera1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}