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.