physical development in infants
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Northern Caribbean University
Department of Natural and Applied Science
By:Javel MightySection: A
Mr. Burlon PantonPhysical Development in infants.
As depicted in the picture above, is a broken down stage of physical motor development in
infants, and their ability to perform tasks as each stage for different age groups.
“Motor development refers to changes in children's ability to control their body's movements,
from infants' first spontaneous waving and kicking movements to the adaptive control of
reaching, locomotion, and complex sport skills” (Adolph, Weise, and Marin 2003, 134) it can
also be referred to as the development of movement. The ability to move is essential to human
development. Many motor skills are necessary for everyday life activities e.g. sitting, walking,
running, climbing stairs, picking up objects, using cups, knives and forks, pouring drinks,
dressing, holding and using pencils, pens, scissors and using keyboards. Basic motor skills can
be further divided up into
• Gross motor skills that are large movements of the body including sitting, walking, running and
climbing stairs.
• Fine motor skills that involve the small movements of the fingers and hands. They include
picking up objects, using cups, knives and forks, pouring drinks, dressing, holding and using
pencils, pens, scissors and keyboards.
Movement can be seen and felt and a delay in motor development is usually the first sign of a
real problem because it is noticed far sooner than a problem with seeing, hearing or
communication. Motor development seems to follow a pattern. Large muscles develop before
smaller ones e.g. very young children find it easier to run than cutting with scissors. Children
also tend to develop in a head-to-toe pattern. For instance, babies move their eyes, head and
hands long before they learn to crawl.
REFERENCE
Goodman M. and Katz B., 1998, “Cerebral Palsy Caring and Coping”. Witwatersrand University Press.
Sacks B. and Buckley S., 2003,
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