Buzz Words:
Abduction
Movement away from the midline of the body.
Adduction
Movement toward the midline of the body.
Auditory Processing
The ability to hear the difference, order, and number of sounds in a word. The ability to effortlessly blend, segment, or analyze sounds within words. Auditory processing is key to reading and spelling success.
Balance
The biological system that helps us maintain a desired position and enables us to know where the body is located in the environment.
Bilabials
Consonants produced by contact of both lips (p, b, m).
Cognition
An individual's ability to perceive, attend to, and learn from the environment.
Clonus
Repetitive tremor of spastic muscles after those muscles have been stretched or after pressure, such as weight-bearing.
Equilibrium Reactions
Automatic movements that help to keep the body's balance point.
Extension
Straightening of the arms, legs, or body.
Figure Ground Perception
The ability to select and attend to one specific stimulus or set of stimuli while keeping the majority of the competing stimuli in the background.
Form Constancy
The ability to recognize and categorize similarities in forms regardless of the difference in size, color, or texture.
Gravitational Insecurity
A primal fear response to change in head position or body movement caused by poor vestibular and/or proprioceptive processing.
Hypertonia
High muscle tone. The arms and legs may appear stiff.
Hypotonia
Low muscle tone. The arms and legs may appear floppy.
Ideomotor Praxis
An idea or intention to initiate a motor action. Children with weak attention will often eliminate this step or be called "impulsive".
Joint Attention
An individual's ability to shift attention to a shared object with another person and the ability to draw another person's attention to an object of mutual attention. It is a precursor for later development of the ability to share emotions with others and understand the perspective of others.
Kinesthesia
Perception of movement of individual body parts using the proprioceptive system.
Midline
An imaginary line through the center of the body going from the head to the toes.
Morphology
Knowledge of word part (i.e., prefixes, suffixes, base words, and root words).
Muscle Tone
The resting tension of a muscle.
Postural Insecurity
A fear of movement with a preference to remain upright.
Pragmatics
Using language for different purposes; adapting or changing language according to the needs or expectations of a listener or situation; following rules of conversations.
Proprioception
Sensation produced in the muscles and muscle tendons that provides information regarding joint position.
Prone
Lying on the stomach.
Proximal
Situated nearest the center of the body.
Sensorimotor
Includes sensory and perceptual processing, neuromuscular abilities, and motor skills.
Supine
Lying on the back.
Tactile Defensiveness
An oversensitivity to touch.
Tongue Lateralization
Movement of the tongue to the sides of the mouth.
Tongue Retraction
A strong pulling back of the tongue into the back of the mouth.
Vestibular
Relating to the sensations produced in the semi-circular canals of the ears that provides information about movement in space, gravity, and balance.
Visual Discrimination
The ability to match or determine characteristics of two forms when one of the forms is among similar forms.
Visual Memory
The ability to remember for immediate recall (after 4-5 seconds) all of the characteristics of a given form and being able to find this form from an array of similar forms.
Visual Perception
The brain's ability to organize, prioritize, and make decisions about the visual information received from the eyes.
Visual Processing
The ability to form and manipulate accurate images in your mind. This skill is essential for math, reading comprehension, and many forms of problem solving.
Abduction
Movement away from the midline of the body.
Adduction
Movement toward the midline of the body.
Auditory Processing
The ability to hear the difference, order, and number of sounds in a word. The ability to effortlessly blend, segment, or analyze sounds within words. Auditory processing is key to reading and spelling success.
Balance
The biological system that helps us maintain a desired position and enables us to know where the body is located in the environment.
Bilabials
Consonants produced by contact of both lips (p, b, m).
Cognition
An individual's ability to perceive, attend to, and learn from the environment.
Clonus
Repetitive tremor of spastic muscles after those muscles have been stretched or after pressure, such as weight-bearing.
Equilibrium Reactions
Automatic movements that help to keep the body's balance point.
Extension
Straightening of the arms, legs, or body.
Figure Ground Perception
The ability to select and attend to one specific stimulus or set of stimuli while keeping the majority of the competing stimuli in the background.
Form Constancy
The ability to recognize and categorize similarities in forms regardless of the difference in size, color, or texture.
Gravitational Insecurity
A primal fear response to change in head position or body movement caused by poor vestibular and/or proprioceptive processing.
Hypertonia
High muscle tone. The arms and legs may appear stiff.
Hypotonia
Low muscle tone. The arms and legs may appear floppy.
Ideomotor Praxis
An idea or intention to initiate a motor action. Children with weak attention will often eliminate this step or be called "impulsive".
Joint Attention
An individual's ability to shift attention to a shared object with another person and the ability to draw another person's attention to an object of mutual attention. It is a precursor for later development of the ability to share emotions with others and understand the perspective of others.
Kinesthesia
Perception of movement of individual body parts using the proprioceptive system.
Midline
An imaginary line through the center of the body going from the head to the toes.
Morphology
Knowledge of word part (i.e., prefixes, suffixes, base words, and root words).
Muscle Tone
The resting tension of a muscle.
Postural Insecurity
A fear of movement with a preference to remain upright.
Pragmatics
Using language for different purposes; adapting or changing language according to the needs or expectations of a listener or situation; following rules of conversations.
Proprioception
Sensation produced in the muscles and muscle tendons that provides information regarding joint position.
Prone
Lying on the stomach.
Proximal
Situated nearest the center of the body.
Sensorimotor
Includes sensory and perceptual processing, neuromuscular abilities, and motor skills.
Supine
Lying on the back.
Tactile Defensiveness
An oversensitivity to touch.
Tongue Lateralization
Movement of the tongue to the sides of the mouth.
Tongue Retraction
A strong pulling back of the tongue into the back of the mouth.
Vestibular
Relating to the sensations produced in the semi-circular canals of the ears that provides information about movement in space, gravity, and balance.
Visual Discrimination
The ability to match or determine characteristics of two forms when one of the forms is among similar forms.
Visual Memory
The ability to remember for immediate recall (after 4-5 seconds) all of the characteristics of a given form and being able to find this form from an array of similar forms.
Visual Perception
The brain's ability to organize, prioritize, and make decisions about the visual information received from the eyes.
Visual Processing
The ability to form and manipulate accurate images in your mind. This skill is essential for math, reading comprehension, and many forms of problem solving.
