| PROGRESSIVE SKILL DEVELOPMENT |
Progressive skill development is one of the most elements of consideration in our product evaluation. They encompass a vast number of critical skills that we consider how a product contributes. The certifications listed here provide you with information on some of the primary elements we consider in our product evaluation.
* We use a 1-5 scale rating system for each critical evaluation segment. |
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Creative Expression
Encourages an individual to make
concepts more concrete, personalize abstractions, and affect attitudes
by involving emotional as well as intellectual responses in their
creative thinking and actions. This stimulates imaginative
and creative activity in an individual. |
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Fine Motor Skills
Helping to develop focused
and detail-oriented hand coordination. This coordination includes
writing, cutting, tracing and self-care skills, such as buttoning,
lacing, zipping and similar tasks. This is specific to challenges
that individuals
with neurological problems or traumatic brain injury. |
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Gross Motor Skills
Helping to involve large muscle groups
for actions which may include
walking, kicking, jumping, and climbing stairs. This skill is especially
important for individuals in following surgery and / or with neurological problems, traumatic brain injury or disabilities. This is specific to challenges that
affect movement with individuals. |
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Self-Supportive Play / Activity
Encouraging an individual to
become more engaged with and resolve problems & challenges without support from others. It encourages
an individual to learn to define, develop, and learn about themselves
and their relationship with others around them. This helps to
develop a sense of autonomy and self-confidence in their own
abilities while also recognizing the important of the unique
abilities they see in others. |
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Sensory
Helping stimulate sensory skills to
provide feedback from the senses to the brain so that an individual
can interact with his or her environment successfully.
It is especially
good for stimulating an individual's sensory development, whether it be
through vision, sound, balance, body awareness, or tactile experience. |
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Social / Emotional
Encouraging psycho-social interaction during personal and recreational activities, as well as greater level of emotional development.
This helps individuals to develop and understand the skills to
interact and work with others in a cooperative fashion. It
also encourages development of emotional responses which
create productive end results in a variety of different situations. |
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Cognitive Skills
Helpings to encourage problem
solving and other skill development through activities
such as abstract symbolic reasoning, spatial reasoning, counting,
matching and sorting. It contributes to an individual's basic
mental abilities used to think, study, learn, analyze sounds
and images, recall information from memory, make associations
between different pieces of information, and maintain concentration on specific tasks. |
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Language
Contributes substantially
to skill development, use and comprehension of language via speech
and vocabulary, symbols, conventions of written language and forms of storytelling.
It encourages development / improvement of constructing coherent
sentences, using proper grammar and / or recalling words. |
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