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What are the types of motor development? Describe any six factors affecting motor development in children.

Answer:

Motor Development: It refers to the development of general body control, fine motor skills and large muscle movements. There are three stages of motor development in children - infancy or infancy hood, early childhood and later childhood.

It is of two types:

(i) Gross Motor development: It involves the development of large muscles in the child?s body such as sitting, walking, running etc.

(ii) Fine Motor development: It involves the development of small muscles of the body, especially during the small movements of the fingers and hands, Example: holding of Javelin, discus and pole, catching a cricket ball etc.

Factors affecting Motor Developments:

(i) Nutrition: Nutritious food promotes good motor development. Sensory motor development is dependent upon nutrition that the child gets to a good extent. Children get stronger if they get nutritious food.

(ii) Immunisation: If mother and child both are immunised at proper time, it leads to a good sensory motor development.

(iii) Environment: Encouragement, love and security help the child to take risk to explore fearlessly and to know more about environment which leads to a better sensory development.

Some of other factors affecting Motor development:

(i) Sleep

(ii) Stimulation and interaction

(iii) Opportunities

(iv) Training and practice

(v) Recreation

(vi) Education: Learning and productivity

(vii) Gender

(viii) Posture deformities

(ix) Sensory impairment

(x) Obesity

(xi) Social skills

(xii) Mental health.