Essay - Elementary Students with Gross Motor Skill Deficiencies Children Develop Physically...

Elementary Students with Gross Motor

Skill Deficiencies

Children develop physically and mentally at a known rate, with some individual variations. However, deficiencies in development can be ascertained through observation and testing and may ***** indicative of problems that need to be addressed by parents ***** medical or school personnel in order ***** br*****g the child up to ***** same level as his or her peers or to address underlying causes. The identification and prescription ***** elementary ***** students with gross mot***** ***** should be an ongoing process as children work their way ***** the early grades when diagnosis would do the most good for intervention to produce positive change.

Psychomo*****r learning involves physical skills, coordination, dexterity, manipulation, grace, strength, and speed. Psychomotor learning can be demonstrated through actions which show the fine motor ***** ***** have been developed, such ***** the use of precision instruments or tools, or ***** which show gross motor skills such as the use of the body in dance or athletic performance (DLRN Technology Resource Guide, 2003). Test*****g for perceived deficits may begin early, as The Merck Manual (2003) notes:

Genetic metabolic disorders ***** be suggested by ********** clinical manifestations (failure to thrive, lethargy, vomiting, seizures, hypo*****nia, hepatosplenomegaly, coarse facial features, abnormal urinary odor, macroglossia). Isolated delays in sitting or walking (***** mot***** *****) and in p*****cer grasp, drawing, or writing (fine mot***** skills) may indicate a neuromuscular disorder. Specific laboratory tests are performed depending on the suspected cause ("***** Merck ***** of Diagnosis and Therapy, Section 19: Pediatrics," 2003).

Such tests indicate the degree of motor coordination achieved, any failure to develop in that area, and perhaps the cause.

Accord*****g to the Nijmegen Institute for Cognition and Information (NICI), knowledge in terms both of its acquisition ***** use depends on mo*****r activity in the human be*****g, and every task reflects the interplay of knowledge ***** movement. Motor control was once studied only by physiologists, but concepts ***** a higher ***** are needed to understand movements and actions:

Researchers ***** *****e and more aware, however, of ***** fact that cognition is not concerned with purely internal functions ***** is a faculty in ***** perception and action, and their biophysical and biomechanical implications, are fully *****tegrated (*****, 2003).

Studies are now conducted ***** gross motor ***** as they suggest something about cognitive learning, and in these studies, research focuses primarily on the ***** involved in po*****ting, gr*****ping, posture, and gait.

***** ***** been found between gross motor skills ***** a wide variety of behaviors, including k*****ledge acquisiti***** and the application of social skills:

For example, ***** skills behaviors (nonsocial skills) are generally not thought ***** as being within the domain of social competence, yet *****y tend to be positively related ***** children's social competence as measured by peer sociometric assessments (Gimpel & Merrell, *****98, 9).

Broekhoff (1*****77) s*****ports this ***** demonstrating that ball‑throwing distance ***** the best predictor of social status in *****‑age boys and that ***** also relationship remained quite stable over time.

Jentzsch (1993) concluded