Regulation of arousal levels
Arousal refers to the ability of the children to maintain an optimal performance level and how alert the children are, in order to sustain our attention and complete tasks as the environment demands. Self-regulation is the ability to achieve, sustain and change our arousal level to meet the changing demands of the task or situation.
Motor planning skills
The ability to conceive, plan, and carry out a skilled, non-habitual motor act in the correct sequence from beginning to end. It is a learned ability which is generalized to all unfamiliar tasks so a child does not need to consciously figure out each new task he or she faces. The child with motor planning difficulties may be slow in carrying out verbal instructions and often appears clumsy in new tasks.
Refinement of sensory processing
Sensory integration is a normal developmental process that helps us to achieve mastery in many areas of development. We perceive and learn through our senses, and sensory input precedes a motor output. As a result of typical sensory processing, we learn self-regulation, self-control, motor skills, and higher level cognitive functions like attention, memory, academic skills, fine motor skills, coordination etc.,.
Handwriting
Handwriting is a complex process of managing written language by coordinating the eyes, arms, hands, pencil grip, letter formation, and body posture. The development of a child's handwriting can provide clues to developmental problems that could hinder a child's learning because teachers depend on written work to measure how well a child is learning..
Balance improvement
Balance is an important body function/motor performance skill to maintain a controlled body position during task performance, whether it is sitting at a table, walking the balance beam or stepping up onto a kerb produces function effectively across environments and tasks..
Enhancement of language and cognitive skills
When a child learns to speak, it is important to ensure that their pronunciation and understanding levels should develop simultaneously. The enhancement of language and cognitive skills is necessary to modify their pronunciation which leads to a highly reliable speech and language therapy for your children.
Development of communication skills
Possessing a set of proper oral language skills can be described as an essential life skill. Both verbally and non-verbally, kids communicate with others while enjoying or disliking certain sensory play and even they express through emotions. Eye contact, proper use of toys while playing, appropriate way of conveying needs are the basic skills of communication. When kids discover that their preferences, it encourages them to communicate even more and better.
Age-appropriate self-help skills
Self-help skills are those skills that are necessary for a person to care and manage their own needs. Self-help skills can include physical skills such as dressing or bathing, and they can include mental and emotional skills such as knowing when to use the restroom, dressing themselves, bathing, showing kindness to others, and offering to help around the house. The development of self-care skills is necessary for a child's independence.
Hand/eye coordination
This occurs automatically for all people and it is not an issue that you really think about. However, certain activities like playing video games or sports generally demand rapid hand-eye coordination. They practice skills that let them move closer to desired objects and also move desired objects closer to themselves. A proper coordination between hand and eye is extremely important for performing many life skills such as writing and eating.
Muscle strengthening
Hand and finger strength is important as it is required for many everyday activities such as doing up buttons and zips, climbing monkey bars or cutting up a piece of steak at mealtimes. It also helps to develop the endurance to complete activities such as writing a full page. Core strengthening activities for children are so important to help with postural control, balance, sports.
Behavior modification
The direct changing of unwanted behavior by means of biofeedback or conditioning is called behavioral modification. We can’t change the brain and how it is processing sensory information but we can change the sensory input going in and watch the behavioural response coming out. This might help the child in his aacademic and organizational skills, social behavior and classroom engagement.
Sensitivity adjustment
Children who has problem in sensory processing might be either over responsive or under responsive to external stimulus. By adjusting their sensory processing ability, the child might be able to perform the activities for daily living without disturbance. It could be adjusted by providing the appropriate sensory input consistently.