Pediatric Occupational Therapy for Visual Motor Skillsin San Ramon, Livermore, and Tracy, CA
Does your child have the precision to pick sprinkles off a cupcake, yet struggle to stack blocks without them tumbling? Perhaps they can easily pluck a tiny thread off your shirt, but frequently overreach or miss when trying to grab their favorite juice box. These inconsistencies are common signs that your child may be experiencing difficulties with visual motor skills.
At Language Essentials, our occupational therapists can help strengthen your child’s visual motor skills so they can navigate their world with more confidence, coordination, and control.
What Are Visual Motor Skills?
Visual motor skills, sometimes called “eye-hand coordination,” describe how your child’s eyes, brain, and body work together to plan and carry out movements with accuracy and control. These skills are involved in everyday activities like neat handwriting, careful scissor work, building puzzles, and catching a fly ball.
When a child struggles with visual motor skills, there may be a disconnect between what they see and how their body responds during an activity. This can cause movements to look clumsy or uncoordinated, as their hands have difficulty keeping up with visual information.
Signs Your Child May Be Struggling With Visual Motor Skills
Common signs of visual motor skill difficulties include:
- Having trouble throwing, catching, or kicking a ball
- Avoiding activities that require eye-hand coordination, such as arts and crafts
- Appearing clumsy or bumping into objects due to difficulty judging distance or body position
- Having difficulty with school tasks that involve copying, spacing, or aligning letters and numbers on the page
How Occupational Therapy Helps Improve Visual Motor Skills
At Language Essentials, our occupational therapists begin by assessing your child’s visual motor skills to understand where support is needed. From there, we develop an individualized therapy plan that focuses on strengthening eye-hand coordination through targeted, evidence-based activities.
Therapy sessions are engaging and play-based, using activities like drawing to strengthen fine motor skills or guided movement games such as beanbag tosses or obstacle courses to support spatial awareness. We also share practical strategies you can use at home to help reinforce skills and support your child’s progress between sessions.
Why Choose Language Essentials
Language Essentials has supported children in the San Ramon, Livermore, and Tracy, CA, areas since 2008. Our occupational therapists work closely with each child to understand their learning style, strengths, and goals. We take the time to design a therapy approach that is effective, positive, motivating, and fun. Our goal is for your child to feel fully supported as they develop the eye-hand coordination they need to live comfortably and confidently.
Find Out if Your Child’s Development Is on Track
Our free online developmental screening helps you understand whether your child is meeting important milestones or may benefit from additional support.
This simple screening is a quick way to learn more about your child’s development. After you complete it, our experienced pediatric therapy team will review your responses and provide helpful insight to guide your next steps. Take the free screening by clicking the button below.
Visit Our Locations
We have three locations in Northern California to enable us to reach as many families in the Greater East Bay Area, Tri-Valley and San Joaquin Valley. They are in San Ramon, Livermore and Tracy. We have carefully chosen locations that are easily accessible from major Interstates such as 5, 205, 580 and 680.
San Ramon
San Ramon is where the Language Essentials story started. From this location, we provide services for children from Walnut Creek to Dublin, and from Oakland to Fremont.
Livermore
In Livermore, the children receiving therapy come from all over the Tri-Valley, encompassing Amador Valley, San Ramon Valley, and Livermore Valley. We are also easily accessible to Fremont and Silicon Valley.
Tracy
Our newest location extends our therapy services to the San Joaquin Valley. Now, children up to age 17 living in Modesto and Stockton can experience the benefits of our speech, occupational and feeding therapies.
Insurance & Payment Options
Accepted Insurance Plans
- Aetna
- American Specialty Health
- Anthem Blue Cross
- BlueShield of California
- Brand New Day
- Bright HealthCare
- Cigna
- Health Net
- Hill Physicians Medical Group
- John Muir Health
- Kaiser Permanente
- Medicare
- Stanford Healthcare
- TCN
- TRICARE
- UnitedHealthCare
Accepted Payment Methods
- American Express
- Discover
- MasterCard
- Visa
- HSA
Reach Out For a Free Consultation
If you are concerned about your child’s visual motor skills, call Language Essentials today at (925) 829-5200 to schedule a free 15-minute consultation, or fill out our online contact form to schedule an evaluation. We look forward to helping your child build strong visual motor skills so they can thrive in school, play, and everyday life.
