Fine Motor Development and Visual Motor Integration
Contact Information
(608) 263-8410
UW Health's pediatric rehabilitation specialists in Madison, Wisconsin, provide a multidisciplinary approach to your child's rehabilitation.
Referrals are made when a child has challenges with:
- Dexterity
- Bilateral coordination
- Eye hand coordination
- Motor control
- Hand strength interfering with functional skills (drawing, cutting, writing, keyboarding, ball skills, age appropriate manipulation of objects).
Treatment addresses:
- Strength and endurance
- Accuracy and patterns of prehension
- Coordination and quality of movement
- Visual motor integration
- Praxis
- Fine motor skills
- Dexterity
Home programs with family consultation are provided to ensure maximum carry over of exercises and activities that promote skill development.
Standardized evaluations include:
- Bayley Scales of Infant Development
- Beery-Buktenica Developmental Test of Visual Motor Integration
- Bruininks-Oseretsky Test of Motor Proficiency
- Peabody Developmental Motor Scales
- Evaluation Tool of Children’s Handwriting
- Minnesota Handwriting Assessment
- Motor-Free Visual Perception Test-Revised
- Gardner Test of Visual-Motor Skills-Revised
- Wide Range Assessment of Visual Motor Abilities