Developing Fine and Gross Motor Skills: Birth to Three

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Donna Staisiunas Hurley

Here is an exciting home exercise program for children ages birth to 3 years, containing dozens of beautifully illustrated, reproducible handouts for parents, as well as for therapists and healthcare and childcare workers.  Each interval of 3 or 6 months in the child s development is divided into a fine- and gross-motor section.  In each section several exercise sheets guide parents or other caregivers in ways to develop specific motor skills typical of that age level.  Here is a sample section.Three to Six Months: Gross Motor Prone on forearms, prone with arms extended, sitting with support, head control, supine: feet to hands, rolling prone to side-lying, rolling prone to supine, rolling supine to prone, pedaling action in supine, creeping, weight bearing n feet.Fine Motor Reaching upward, palmar grasp, hands to midline, ulnar palmar grasp, radial palmar grasp.Each reproducible exercise sheet is easy to follow and includes these sections:

• Desired movement
• How Does This Movement Help Your Child
• Picture of the Movement
• How to Incorporate This Movement Into Your Daily routine
• What to Expect Next

168 pages 2000 large format spiral bound