| Body Position Awareness |
| Overreactive |
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Avoider |
| Tense muscles. |
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Avoids lifting heavy objects. |
| Walks stiff and uncoordinated. |
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Avoid physical activities, such as sports, that may involve lots of running, jumping, crashing, etc. |
| Often have rigid or tense posture |
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Doesn’t engage in playground activities (climbing, swinging, etc). |
| Locks joints to stabilize movement. |
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Avoid moving or stretching limbs or other body parts |
| Can't lift heavy objects. |
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| Hangs on objects for support. |
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| Props to support self. |
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| Have difficulty tolerating other people moving body and hugging. |
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| Body Position Awareness |
| Underreactive |
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Seeking |
| Weak grasp. |
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Crave highly physical activities and love to play contact sports. |
| Poor endurance for tasks. |
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High levels of energy and arousal. |
| Tires easily, collapses. |
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Pulls, twists, or chew on things (i.e. shirt, gum, pencil). |
| May have low muscle tone or other motor issues |
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Bites or sucks on fingers and/or frequently cracks his/her knuckles . |
| May have difficulty with fine motor tasks that involve the use of hand held utensils or using zippers or buttons |
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Grinds his/her teeth throughout the day . |
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Chews on pens, straws, shirt sleeves etc. |
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Prefers clothes (and belts, hoods, shoelaces) to be as tight as possible . |
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Leans, bumps, trips or crashes into objects. |
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Seeks out jumping, bumping, and crashing activities . |
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Excessive banging on/with toys and objects . |
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Frequently falls on floor intentionally . |
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Would jump on a trampoline for hours on end . |
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Loves jumping off furniture or from high places . |
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Stomps feet when walking . |
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Kicks his/her feet on floor or chair while sitting at desk/table . |
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Loves to be tightly wrapped in many or weighted blankets, especially at bedtime . |
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Loves/seeks out "squishing" activities . |
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Enjoys bear hugs. |
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Frequently crack knuckles or stretch limb. |
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Frequently breaks toys or hurts classmates when didn’t mean to. |
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Too much pressure when writing (i.e. writes letter over and over again until puts a hole in paper). |
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Loves "roughhousing" and tackling/wrestling games . |
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Loves pushing/pulling/dragging objects . |
| Body Position Awareness |
| Poor Perception and/or Discrimination |
| Stiff uncoordinated movements. |
| Poor spatial awareness. |
| Craves deep pressure sensations on body. |
| Unaware of obstacles in their pathway. |
| Difficulty in moving and maintaining posture without the use of direct vision. |
| Difficulty getting in and out of chair, up and down stairs. |
| Too tight or too weak grasp on pencil. |
| Misjudges how much to flex and extend muscles during tasks/activities (i.e., putting arms into sleeves or climbing). |
| Difficulty regulating pressure when writing/drawing; may be too light to see or so hard the tip of writing utensil breaks. |
| Written work is messy and he/she often rips the paper when erasing. |
| Always seems to be breaking objects and toys. |
| Misjudges the weight of an object, such as a glass of juice, picking it up with too much force sending it flying or spilling, or with too little force and complaining about objects being too heavy. |
| May not understand the idea of "heavy" or "light"; would not be able to hold two objects and tell you which weighs more. |
| Seems to do everything with too much force; i.e., walking, slamming doors, pressing things too hard, slamming objects down. |
| Plays with animals with too much force, often hurting them. |
