enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Fine motor skill - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fine_motor_skill

    Motor skills are movements and actions of the bone structures. [1] Typically, they are categorised into two groups: gross motor skills and fine motor skills. Gross motor skills are involved in movement and coordination of the arms, legs, and other large body parts. They involve actions such as running, crawling and swimming.

  3. Gross motor skill - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gross_motor_skill

    Gross motor skills can be further divided into two subgroups of locomotor skills and object control skills. Gross locomotor skills would include running, jumping, sliding, and swimming. Object control skills would include throwing, catching and kicking. Fine motor skills are involved in smaller movements that occur in the wrists, hands, fingers ...

  4. Denver Developmental Screening Tests - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denver_Developmental...

    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.

  5. Childhood development of fine motor skills - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Childhood_development_of...

    Fine motor skills are the coordination of small muscle movements which occur e.g., in the fingers, usually in coordination with the eyes. In application to motor skills of hands (and fingers) the term dexterity is commonly used. The term 'dexterity' is defined by Latash and Turrey (1996) as a 'harmony in movements' (p. 20).

  6. Kindergarten readiness - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kindergarten_readiness

    Fine motor development, which involves manipulating small objects and forming pencil grips are necessary for the development of other academic skills. For example, by age five, children usually possess the fine motor skills to allow them to print some letters, draw a person with a head, a body, legs, and arms, as well as other shapes, such as ...

  7. Gross Motor Function Classification System - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gross_Motor_Function...

    The Gross Motor Function Classification System or GMFCS is a 5 level clinical classification system that describes the gross motor function of people with cerebral palsy on the basis of self-initiated movement abilities. Particular emphasis in creating and maintaining the GMFCS scale rests on evaluating sitting, walking, and wheeled mobility.

  8. Manual Ability Classification System - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manual_Ability...

    Like the Gross Motor Function Classification System (GMFCS), there are five levels - level I being the least impaired, only finding difficulty in tasks needing speed and accuracy, and level V being the most impaired, not being able to handle objects and having severely limited abilities for even simple actions.

  9. Early childhood development - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early_Childhood_Development

    Fine and gross motor skills; Mastery of dynamic skills, locomotion, agility, physical literacy, manipulating tools and a range of other physical skills; Sensory development; Inhibition of primitive reflexes. [9] A child’s health and ability to thrive and flourish are linked to physical development.