GROSS MOTOR WORKSHOP

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GROSS MOTOR WORKSHOP

• Senior Freshman
• Sandra Patton

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Gross motor skills

• Refers to coordinating large body movements in
  games sports

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Assessment of gross motor skills

• Standardized assessments focus on
• Ball skills
• Balance
• E.g. Bruinninks Ostertsky Movement ABC

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Balance

• Static balance refers to the ability to stabilize
  body in a balanced position, e.g. standing on one
  leg
• Dynamic balance refers to maintaining balance
  while moving, e.g. Hopskotch

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Foundations of movement

• All movement is dependent on
• accurate sensory processing ( proprioceptive,
  vestibular , tactile, visual etc), this helps
  build body awareness postural control
• Mechanical features
• Praxic abilities
• With practice children develop increasingly more
  complex movements skills

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SENSORY PROCESSING/INTEGRATION

• The information received from the
  proprioceptive sense ( muscles joints) the
  vestibular sense ( balance), the visual
  auditory sense and tactile system helps develop
  body awareness and to build motor maps in
  memory, so that with practice motor actions
  become automatic and we can learn new motor
  skills as we grow.

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MECHANICAL/PHYSICAL FEATURES

• Physical capabilities of the child disability
  may impact on this
• Strength
• Range of movement can be limited
• Muscle tone too high too low
• Joint stability e.g if poor joint stability in
  shoulders, difficult to accurately control fine
  finger movements

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PRAXIS

• Praxis is the ability to plan and sequence
  unfamiliar motor actions
• Components of praxis
• Ideation
• Motor planning
• Execution Feedback
• Elements of praxis
• Timing sequencing, grading, Bilateral
  integration

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Bilateral Integration

• This refers to being able to use the two sides of
  body together in activities.
• Tasks that involve the body in doing different
  tasks are more difficult than when body doing the
  same task.
• Examples, Jumping two feet together is easier
  than alternating movement, e.g. skipping

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Sequencing Grading

• A lot of sports/ games involve the ability to
  sequence a number of movements and timing of the
  sequence can be very important to success, e.g.
  racket games
• This refers to the fine tuning needed to perform
  fluid movements comes with refinement of skills

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Activities

• Pogo hopper
• Play catch game
• Bat balloon/shuttle
• Skipping
• Football between objects

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TASK

• Observe a person carrying out the task.
• What skills does this involve?
• What age of child is the activity suitable for?
• How could you grade the difficulty of the task?