Movement Development : Manipulative Movements

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Lecture 5

• Movement Development Manipulative Movements

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Review Week 4

• Normative information from age-related charts is
  useful for being aware of when children may need
  outside support
• Individual ( internal and ecological) issues
  influence individual childrens progress
• Sequences are stable and can be used as a frame
  of reference for planning programs

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Objectives Week 5

• Awareness of normative development in
  manipulative movements
• Review individual ( internal and ecological
  factors influencing individual progress
• Apply the travel map-sequence concept to
  manipulative movements

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Manipulative Movements

• Mainly fine motor, with some gross motor elements
• Reach-grasp- release

• Mainly gross motor plus some fine motor elements
• Against resistance e.g.push-pull-lift
• Receipt/propulsion e.g.throw-catch-kick

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Infant Development

• Palmar reflex, tactile (hand mouth)
• Visually directed reaching, touching, grasping-1
  2 hands
• Intentional release
• Poking,pulling
• Shoulder stablity

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Toddler Development

• Feature perception
• Palmar tripod grip
• Stacking inserting
• Fill empty
• Manipulating e.g. with self-feeding, toys
• Throw scoop large ball towards body

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Experience 1 Try out and Discuss

• Try reaching for an item without shoulder
  stability, then with joint stability at elbow or
  wrist level. Note the amount of finger control
  you have
• Try out palmar and tripod grips, and discuss the
  size of toys which may be appropriate

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Experience 1 Feedback

• Did you find you had to hold each joint
  (shoulder, elbow, wrist) to feel whether it was
  stable or not? Was there a significant difference
  in control at each level?
• Did you think that the difference between
  suitable toys for various grips was also related
  to the childs hand size / vision?

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Preschool Development

• Detail awareness
• Pincer grip,dexterity
• Finger separation
• Hand dominance
• Eye hand coordination
• Throw and catch medium ball, kick, throw to large
  target

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Junior Primary Development

• Rhythmic temporal
• Dynamic tripod grip for writing effectively
• Joint rotation e.g. turning small items
• Range of self help
• Controlled throw
• Bounce, dribble, strike

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Experience 2 Try out and Discuss

• Try drawing, using your pen in a pincer, tripod
  and dynamic tripod grip. What made an effective
  mark with a thin pen?
• Now try it without using your other hand to
  stabilise the paper. What happens?
• Try throwing /catching from the shoulder then
  elbow then wrist. What do you notice?

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Experience 2 Feedback

• Did you find that using both hands was important
  in drawing? Why? What did each hand do? What if
  you swapped hands?
• How did the action change when you threw or
  caught using different joint stability?

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Remember - Individual Variations

• Individual variations related to issues internal
  to the child ( e.g. maturation, health,
  disposition, personal abilities)
• Individual variations related to ecological
  influences ( e.g. parental expectations, climate
  and location constraints, availability of
  facilities, centre program emphasis)

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Developing a Sequence Chart - Manipulative
Movements

• Prepare a travel map 0-8 years, with four
  sections( one per age group)
• Locate normative data from study book and texts
  on the travel map, noting source (e.g.
  throw-catch-bounce)
• Write the full reference in the reference list at
  the back of your folio.

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Folio Problem Solving

• CONTENT
• Non-locomotor data is hard to obtain - make just
  one travel map in this movement area
• Not much 0-2 in throw-catch etc - put some
  grasp/release

• PRESENTATION
• Lot of information bunched in first 2 years-
  adjust travel map space to cater
• Part B resource ideas very skills based. Add some
  more strategies.

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Video on Fine Motor Manual Development

• Note the combination of fine and gross motor
  developments, and perceptual issues for each age
  group
• Note the experiences and materials which the
  children use