MOTOR DEVELOPMENT IN EARLY CHILDHOOD

MOTOR DEVELOPMENT IN EARLY CHILDHOOD

(6-11) YEARS OF AGE

6-11 years old coming out of their classes after school is over? Yes you are Right! Some of them would be running, others would be skipping and still others leaping on to narrow edges and balancing themselves. The children are learning to coordinator their muscle for different types of movements. The body had two types of muscles, namely the large muscles such as those of legs, arms, back etc. and the small muscles or fine muscles such as those in the fingers, toes etc.

Muscle coordination is of two types: (Fine or Gross)

The movements of fine (small) muscles is called fine motor muscular coordinator while the movement of large muscle is called gross motor muscular coordinator. Activities such as running, balancing, skipping, climbing etc.

Gross muscular coordination

Motor skill are action that involves that the movement of muscles in the body. They are divided into two groups. Gross motor skills develop over a relatively short period of time. Most development occurs during childhood. E.g. crawling, running, jumping.

Fine motor skills

AS the child grow older greater proficiency over fine movement is gained. This is the period which involves fine motor coordination can be taught to the child such as writing, needle work, painting etc. It is known from experience that children learn to walk run, jump, kick etc. before they learn to feed themselves or write.

It means that gross motor muscular coordination is learnt before fine muscle coordination. From 6-11 years, the handwriting gradually improves i.e. it becomes better and faster. Children in the age group between 6-11 years learn maximum number of different activities. They play different types of games.

Activities and skills from 6-11 years

·         Throw a ball at an estimated distance.

·         Catch the ball

·         Balance on one feet

·         Jump at a good height

·         Skip with two legs

DISORDER OF PHYSICAL DEVELOPMENT DURING

(6-11) YEARS OF AGE

Some of the disorders that arise in children could be due to physical illness, fall, injuries and accidents etc. Some of the disorders are Genetic, while some are acquired. Did this order that are obtained during this period are given below: (ADD) Attention Deficit Disorder.

·         Hyperactive

o   Children with this disorder are distractible, impulsive, irritable, moody, slow in learning and in attentive, physically such as children tend to move from one side to another and are constantly diverted by sounds and objects. They are chaotic in their behaviour and tends to forget what they are told to do, cannot do sequentially ordered tasks.

·         Hypoactive

o   Children with disorder show less than normal activity levels and excessive day learning. They may be quite and understanding in their behaviour but may not be able to attend to specific tasks.

·         Execution of motor skills

o   Children at this age show wide range of individual differences in the execution of motor skills and in their ability to masters, complex motor tasks. They show improvement in gross motor skills reflected in increased speed, power, coordination, agility and balance. These children appear to be always in a hurry. They also show intense interest in acquiring and improving these skills.

o   As for disorder in regards to these aspects they may have certain congenital or acquired deficits in motor skills and activities. Many may not be able to show coordination or fine motor skills due to deficiency or abnormality in their physique. Sometimes high fever and many physical illness may keep the children of from many of these activities and when they do recover, they may not be able to equal their peers and thus feel unhappy.

·         Fail to close attention to details leading to careless mistakes

·         Avoiding task that require strenuous activity

·         Having difficulty in organizing task

·         Easily destructed by extraneous activity

·         Fidgets and squirms in seat

·         Forgetting schedule for daily activities

·         Loosing material that is necessary for the task they need to complete

·         Having difficulty in listening and what is being said

·         Having difficulty sustaining attention to task or to play activities

·         Leave desk or seat in the classroom inappropriate time

·         Talk excessively

·         Run or climb in situation when it is inappropriate

·         Avoid engaging in quite leisure activities

·         Displays difficulty waiting in lines and taking turn

Interrupting into conversation or other peoples gain and intruding on others