What are some symptoms of poor eye hand coordination?
Poor eye hand coordination often presents itself as an avoidance or refusal to participate in many ordinary, daily activities. Children with poor eye hand coordination, for example, typically have difficulty learning handwriting skills, such as legibility and handwriting efficiency, and therefore abstain from writing activities. Other skills like dressing, taking care of one’s personal hygiene or playing with small objects like blocks, action figures or dolls may be limited or avoided altogether. Since eye hand coordination is necessary for many sports, athletic pursuits can often be neglected completely. It is important to note that a child’s success in or efficiency with playing computer or video games does not necessarily demonstrate appropriate eye hand coordination skills. Although these games do require some coordination between eye and hand movements, the coordination is limited and unnatural, and thus not representative of a healthy hand eye association.
