Gross Motor Skills
Gross Motor Skills
- Eye-hand co-ordination
- Balance
- Spatial Awareness
- Correctly co-ordinate 2 sides of the body
Areas we treat:
- Ball skills – throwing, catching and hitting a ball
- Balance – hopping, balancing on one leg, walking on a balance beam, walking heel to toe
- Clumsiness
- Awkward running or jumping
- Co-ordination of body sides – difficulty skipping, doing star-jumps
- Difficulty with dancing, “Simon Says”
- Locomotor skills – hopping, jumping, skipping
- Motor planning skills
- Right/left discrimination
What to look out for in your child:
- Flinching or other responses when catching a ball
- Fear response to gross motor activities
- Level of avoidance or motivation to gross motor activities
- Unable to hop, skip, jump, run etc
- Difficulty co-ordinating body side
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