Motor developmrent

Development of the child

1. MOTOR DEVELOPMRENT

2. Motor Development
•Refers to the development of a child’s bones, muscles,
and ability to move around and manipulates his or her
environment.
•Development of strength, speed and accuracy in the use
of muscular parts of the body.
•Closely related with physical, mental and emotional and
social developments.

3. Child's Motor Development

4. •Motor development can be divided into
two sections:
•Gross motor development
•Fine motor development

5. Factors Influencing Motor
Development
•Growth of the child- ability to perform more
activity with their body
and affected by age and
size
•Environment – child’s environment has a
large effect on their motor
skill development

6. •Genetics- child are affected both by the
genetics of their ancestors
and their own.
•Muscle tone- the stronger a child is the
more ability they may have to
move and control their body.

7. Sex Differences in Motor Development
•Sex difference has been noticed in the motor
development of the children.
•Boys are superior to the girls in the test of speed,
strength and in motor skills.
•These differences are aggravated with increase in age.

8. •Girls further reach their maximum at the age of
Fourteen in their ability to perform motor acts.
•Boys continue to improve even upto Eighteen years.
•Boys are superior in the activities involving brutal
force while girls in the activities involving
concentration and accuracy

9. MOTOR DEVELOPMENT AND EDUCATION
•Important pre-requisite for man’s motor development.
•Motor development continues during childhood and
adolescence
•Much importance is given to physical exercise, games,
activities that required speed, accuracy
•It helps to develop many handicrafts that assist him to
adopt a particular career.

10. •At the middle and secondary stages of education,
teacher need to organize various type of activities
•Motor development is a subservient of mental
development
•Motor behaviour serves as a vehicle for most of the
children social-contacts and his learning of ways of
co-operating behaviour`
•Motor development has an important bearing on a
child’s emotional behaviour.

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