Posts

Showing posts from June, 2015

Signs of Positive Developmental Delays: Gross Motor and Sensory Development

Image
Delays in gross motor or sensory skills may be caused by a variety of neurological or orthopedic problems . REMEMBER , THOUGH THAT MOST DELAYS ARE NOT SERIOUS . <script async src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js"></script> <script>      (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({           google_ad_client: "ca-pub-4280545194065456",           enable_page_level_ads: true      }); </script> The following may be signs of developmental delay : Birth to 3months: 🔵  Limbs trunk feel floppy and excessively loose 🔵 Arms and legs in only a limited way 🔵 Is unable to maintain a position on the stomach 3 to 6months: 🔵 Limbs and trunk feel floppy excessively loose 🔵 Arms and legs are stiff when moved during dressing and changing 🔵 Move arms and legs in only a limited way 🔵 Has trouble rolling from back to stomac...

Motor Development and Sensory Development (Infant to Early Childhood)

Image
The foundation of growth, development, and learning in a child starts with sensory and motor interaction with the world. The brain is built from the bottom up and this starts with movement and sensory exploration Motor   Development Gross motor skills involve the ability to use large muscle for movement such as lifting the head, crawling, or walking. These skills begin to develop in infancy and early childhood. Sensory   Development Sensory skills, such as taste, touch, visions, hearing and smell development and exploration. Infants explore with their mouth and progress to exploring with the hands. Sensory skills become more refined in early childhood. Jean Piaget was a 20th century forward - thinking psychologist who focused his COGNITIVE studies on children . He found that children think in a completely different way than adult, a truly remarkable find since many  <script async src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js">...