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Active
balance - ability to maintain correct posture while moving
(i.e. hopping, jumping, walking)
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Bilateral
co-ordination co-ordination between the left and right
sides of the body.
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Cognitive
includes the processes of knowing and understanding,
awareness, judgment and decision-making.
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Diadokokinesia
- difficulties with alternating movements.
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Low
muscle tone the lack of supportive muscle tone usually
with increased mobility at the joints.
The person with low tone seems `loose and floppy`
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Motor
pertaining to body movement or posture.
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Motor
planning the ability to conceive of, organise, sequence
and carry out a complex body movement in a coordinated manner.
Especially if unfamiliar.
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Muscle
tone the degree of tension normally presented when
ones muscles are relaxed or in a resting state.
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Postural
control automatic movements in the trunk and limbs
allowing a person to use only the muscles necessary for a
particular motion.
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Static
balance ability to maintain correct posture whilst still
(i.e. one leg standing)
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Visual
figure ground the ability to identify an item from a
confused or busy background.
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Visual
form constancy the ability to identify a form, even
though it may be presented differently, e.g. reversed, larger,
smaller or a different colour.
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Visual
motor referring to correct physical movement in response
to the perception of visual information.
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Visual
perception the capacity to interpret or give meaning to
what is seen.
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Visual
discrimination the ability to match or determine exact
characteristics of two forms when one of the forms is among
similar forms.
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Visual
memory the ability to remember for immediate recall
(after four or five seconds) all of the characteristics of a
given form, and being able to find this form from an array of
similar forms.
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Visual-spatial
relationships the ability to determine, from among five
forms of identical configuration, the one single form or part of
a single form that is going in a different direction from the
other forms.
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Visual
sequential memory the ability to remember for immediate
recall (after four or five seconds) a series of forms from among
four separate series of forms
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Body scheme
the mental picture of ones own body parts, where they are, how
they interrelate and how they move.
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Fine motor
referring to movement of the small muscles in the fingers, toes,
eyes and tongue.
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Gross motor
referring to the movement of the large muscles in the arms, legs
and trunk.
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Kinaesthesia
the conscious awareness of joint position and body movement in
space, such as knowing where to place ones feet when climbing
stairs without visual cues.
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Motor Praxis
the ability to interact successfully with the physical
environment: to plan, organise and carry out a sequence of
unfamiliar actions.
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Proprioception
the unconscious awareness of sensation coming from ones joints,
muscle, tendons and ligaments:
the position sense.
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Sensory the
streams of electrical impulses flowing from the sense receptors
in the body to the spinal cord and brain.
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Sensory integration
the normal neurological process of taking in information
from ones body and environment through the senses.
This information is then organised and unified and used
to plan and execute adaptive responses to different challenges.
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Sensory modulation
the brains regulation of the incoming sensory information.
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Sensori-motor
pertaining to the brain-behaviour process of taking in sensory
messages and reacting with a physical response.
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Somatosensory
referring to tactile-proprioceptive perception of touch
sensations and body position: body sensing.
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Occular
Motor Control. This
is the smooth and coordinated movement of the eyes to attend to
follow objects and people in the environment.
Controlled eye movements are needed for finding and
tracking a moving object, scanning the environment, quickly
shifting focus from one thing to another and for eye-hand
coordination.
