Fine motor skill

referred by Jaco Nel (Paediatrician) to the Child Development Team (CDT) in November 2014. The referral was for an assessment of her handwriting skills. Nardia presents with epilepsy and mild global developmental delay by Dr Jaco Nel. Nardia fully participated in the Visual Motor Integration and Visual Perception assessment (June 2015) and did not complete the Motor Coordination assessment due to Nardia’s attention and participation decreasing. Nardia listened to instructions and followed them…

Many research conducted has proven that play can help develop children’s fine motor skills. Fine motor skills are the collection of skills, using the small muscles in the hands and fingers, therefore allowing children to perform crucial tasks such as reaching, grasping, moving objects and tools and using their hand-eye coordination (Ammundson and Weil 2001; Case-Smith and Shortridge, 1996). For instance, role play such as dressing up clothes with several types of fasteners can help develop…

Improved gross and fine motor skills have significant cognitive and socioemotional implications. Early motor development has been used for a long time as a foresight for later age motor and cognitive development. Researchers have long realized that specific motor development milestones, like walking or crawling, can help doctors and parents track early development in their children. Recently, they have learned that those milestones may be a useful tool for predicting later age development.…

groups. It is the job of the caregiver to encourage and guide the children to developing social, emotional, cognitive, physical, and language skills while in a positive and appropriate learning environment. The toddler’s learning environment must be safe. “Safety is freedom from danger, harm, and loss” (Koralek, 2005, p. 1). Caregivers…

Primarily, the toy; Laugh & learn Learning Home playset recommended age range is essentially the best time period where major motor development milestones occurs. Typically, an infant start to learn approximately between the ages of six to thirty-six months of infancy. One of the major milestones that occurs this period would be the infants at the age of five to eleven months can…

and left handed individuals can use it. Students place their fingers on either the L or R on the device. Skills Needed to Use Device (Cognitive, Gross Motor and Fine Motor Skills) Students need to be able to place their fingers on their pencil, grip the pencil and be able to write using the pencil. The student does not complex thought processes to use the device, but to master the overall skill of writing, the student needs…

regarding problem solving, communication, fine…

Program. This program offers individuals with disabilities to ride a horse in order to build their social skills, build their motor skills, and give them confidence. This organization states, “Our Mission is to encourage and provide Frederick County, Maryland citizens with medically certified mental, physical and/or emotional disabilities with equestrian activities to learn basic horsemanship skills, improve physically with better muscle tone, balance and posture; and improve their emotional…

classroom the children are able to communicate with their peers in order to work together or alongside each other to develop their social emotional and language skills. They have to consider what it is they are making and how they will structure or build it in order to get their desired outcome. This means that they will be using their cognitive skills…

Name: Pattern Worms Activity category: Math, fine motor Area of room: Small table Focus of Children and Rationale: According to common core children in Ms. B’s kindergarten class must learn one to one correspondence and be able to build simple patterns. Some students enjoy building with Legos (e.g. James, Malik, and Parte). Some girls like to use Legos to build a pretend houses and color coordinate blocks together. Although, the girl’s fine motor skills are more developed, the boys do not seem…