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Rehabilitation engineering across the lifespan
Published in Alex Mihailidis, Roger Smith, Rehabilitation Engineering, 2023
Developmental milestones are age-specific behaviors or skills observed in infants and children within a particular age range. Sitting, walking, talking, and getting dressed are examples of developmental milestones. As children develop and achieve more developmental milestones, they progressively become more capable and independent. Typically, developing children acquire increasingly complex skills in all areas of development: gross motor, fine motor, speech and language, cognitive, and socioemotional. Gross motor skills are those skills that involve large muscle groups, such as standing and walking. Fine motor skills involve use of the hands to perform such tasks as coloring and writing. Speech and language skills involve receptive abilities (understanding what someone has said) as well as expressive abilities (communicating to others). Cognitive skills involve thought processes and include activities such as learning, problem-solving, and remembering. Socioemotional skills include interacting with others and developing relationships with other people.
Physical Development
Published in Krystina Castella, Designing for Kids, 2018
Gross motor skills involve the larger muscles in the arms, legs and torso. When an infant is born, they don’t have much control of their movements, but as they develop, they explore the world through their body, play and movement. They form body memories and gradually develop gross motor skills for activities including walking, running, throwing, lifting, balancing and kicking. These skills also relate to body awareness, reaction speed, balance and strength. An Olympic gymnast is a master of gross motor skill control.
Identifying childhood movement profiles and comparing differences in mathematical skills between clusters: A latent profile analysis
Published in Journal of Sports Sciences, 2021
Timo Jaakkola, Airi Hakkarainen, Arto Gråsten, Elina Sipinen, Anssi Vanhala, Mikko Huhtiniemi, Anu Laine, Kasper Salin, Pirjo Aunio
MC is typically determined to include fundamental movement skills. More specifically, these gross motor skills include balance, locomotor, and object control skills (Syväoja et al., 2079). Empirical evidence has recently indicated the positive association between MC and mathematical skills. Ericsson and Karlsson, 2014.