Transcript Gross and Fine Motor Development Infant.ppt

Motor
Development
Fine & Gross
Gross Motor Skills
• Physical skills involving large body
movements.
– Waving arms, walking, and jumping
– Newborns on stomach
Fine Motor Skills
• Physical skills involving small body
movements, especially with the hands and
fingers
– picking up a coin or drawing
– Pincer Grasp
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How can you promote gross and
fine motor development in
children?
 Child’s temperament and the progression
of motor development.
 Arrange outdoor and indoor environment
to encourage motor skills.
Promoting Gross Motor
Development
• Infant
– Lay your infant on floor – head.
– Put him on his back to reach.
– Hold infant
– Walk on the curb
– Have her throw her dirty clothes in the
laundry basket, then praise her when she
"makes a basket"
– Give chalk to draw circles on the sidewalk,
then have her jump from circle to circle
Promoting Gross Motor
Development
• Preschooler
– Balance on one foot.
– Gallop, skip, hop, march, and run when
walking a long distance.
– Practice throwing, tossing, and aiming.
Promoting Fine Motor
Development
• Infant
– Give blocks.
– Play with plastic containers.
– Use fingers to point at objects.
Promoting Fine
Motor Development
• Toddler
– Put toothpaste on toothbrush and brush the
child’s teeth.
– Give fork and spoon to use at mealtime.
– Collect scrap paper in a box and let the
toddler practice cutting with safe scissors.
Cognitive Development
 Brain has reached 75% of adult weight by
age 2.
 Categorize Objects/Pictures
• Object Permanence:
– The ability to understand that objects and
people exist independently of one’s
perception of them.
Television and Cognitive
Development
• By 3 months of age, 40 percent of infants are watching a
half-hour a day of television, DVDs or videos, according
to a study of families in Washington and Minnesota.
• In UW study, 40 percent of infants watched at least 30
minutes a day.
• By age 2, 90 percent of children are watching an hour
and a half of television, according to the survey.
• "While appropriate television viewing at the right age can
be helpful for both children and parents, excessive
viewing before age 3 has been shown to be associated
with problems of attention control, aggressive behavior
and poor cognitive development."
The top three reasons given by
parents for allowing their
children to watch television,
DVDs or videos were:
• 29 percent believe they were educational
or good for the child's brain
• 23 percent said viewing was enjoyable or
relaxing for the child.
• 21 percent use television and videos as
an electronic baby sitter so they could do
other things.
Television increases the risk of
developing attention deficit
disorder in children.
• Agree or Disagree? Why?
• Watching too much television increased the child's
likelihood of being unable to pay attention in school, and
each hour a day in front of the TV increased by 10% the
chance that the child would show signs of the disorder,
the study found
• Children who watched the most television were more
likely to rank in the top 10% for concentration problems,
impulsiveness, restlessness and being easily confused.
• Each additional hour of viewing increased the child's
likelihood of having attention problems by about 10%.
Professional Advice
• The American Academy of Pediatrics
recommends no television for children younger
than 2, and only one to two hours a day of
quality programming for older children.
• The academy also suggests that parents not
allow TV sets in children's rooms. It released a
separate report Monday indicating one-fifth of
the nation's children age 2 or younger have a TV
in their rooms.
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Children and Electronic Media
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