Hand-Eye Coordination

Using vision to guide hand movement, threading a needle, catching a ball, pouring a glass of water.

Hand-eye coordination is the functional partnership between what you see and what your hands do. It is a subset of visual-motor integration that specifically refers to real-time hand control guided by vision. This skill is essential for self-feeding with utensils, dressing with buttons and zips, sports, handwriting, and most school-based tasks. OTs assess it through activities like ball-catching, block-stacking, peg-boarding and handwriting trials, and build it through progressively harder visual-targeted tasks.

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Visual-Motor Integration

The ability to use what your eyes see to guide what your hands do, the foundation of handwriting, catching, and cutting.

Fine Motor Skills

Small, precise movements of the hands and fingers, writing, buttoning, using scissors, tying shoelaces.

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