Motor Planning:

Motor planning organizes/integrates sensory input (internal/external) and plans/coordinates unfamiliar movement or action responses. It’s a learned ability so a child can face new tasks without needing to consciously figure out what to do each time. A child with motor planning difficulties may be slow in carrying out verbal instructions and may appear clumsy in new tasks. Processing sensory information and poor neural connections in the brain contribute to motor planning difficulties: fine (handwriting), goss (jumping), and oral (forming words). Therapy involves a sensory integrative approach to develop body awareness, improve motor planning, and interpret sensory information from tactile, proprioceptive, vestibular, visual, and auditory systems. Also see Dyspraxia and Variable Motor Timing