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  2. Gross motor skill - Wikipedia

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    These gross movements come from large muscle groups and whole body movement. These skills develop in a head-to-toe order. The children will typically learn head control, trunk stability, and then standing up and walking. It is shown that children exposed to outdoor play time activities will develop better gross motor skills.

  3. Motor skill - Wikipedia

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    Motor skills are movements and actions of the muscles. There are two major groups of motor skills: Gross motor skills [2] – require the use of large muscle groups in our legs, torso, and arms to perform tasks such as: walking, balancing, and crawling. The skill required is not extensive and therefore are usually associated with continuous tasks.

  4. Early childhood development - Wikipedia

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    Physical development refers to the development of movement, the brain and all other relevant stages of development that contributes to locomotion. [7] In early childhood, children develop the ability to gradually control movement, achieve balance and coordination and fine and gross motor skills. [8]

  5. Toddler - Wikipedia

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    Toddler development can be broken down into a number of interrelated areas. [7] There is reasonable consensus about what these areas may include: Physical: growth or an increase in size. Gross motor: the control of large muscles which enable walking, running, jumping and climbing.

  6. Child development stages - Wikipedia

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    Motor planning includes an individual's choice of movements and trajectory of such movements. Children begin to display motor planning in preference of certain body parts such as hand preference. For instance, left-handed children will start to plan how they can perform a motor skill, like throwing a ball, but execute it with their left hand.

  7. Music education for young children - Wikipedia

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    Combining these learning modes in children's action songs helps improve information memorization, recall, and fine and gross motor skills. Fingerplays and action rhymes are short poems, lyrics, chants, or stories that can be used as musical experiences for your child to learn through hand motions—the lyrics pair words and actions, which ...

  8. Developmental psychology - Wikipedia

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    Motor coordination problems affect fine and gross motor movement as well as perceptual-motor skills. Secondary stressors commonly identified include the tendency for children with poor motor skills to be less likely to participate in organized play with other children and more likely to feel socially isolated. [70]

  9. Denver Developmental Screening Tests - Wikipedia

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    The tests address four domains of child development: personal-social (for example, waves bye-bye), fine motor and adaptive (puts block in cup), language (combines words), and gross motor (hops). They are meant to be used by medical assistants or other trained workers in programs serving children.