Seeing the Whole Picture
Seeing the Whole Picture: Oculomotor Development, Occupational Therapy, and Primitive Reflex Integration By Irene Hannam, MS OTR/L Why Oculomotor Development Matters in Occupational Therapy: Oculomotor control—including pursuits (smooth tracking), saccades (quick eye shifts), convergence (eye teaming), and accommodation (focus changes)—is foundational for functional school tasks like reading, writing, classroom copying, and visual scanning. Deficits manifest […]