Gross Motor Skills vs. Fine Motor Skills
What are gross motor skills? How are they different from fine motor skills? In this video, occupational therapist Keri Wilmot explains gross motor skills, like jumping and running, and fine...
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Many parents are often confused about the difference between gross motorskills and fine motor skills. Gross motor skills are when children learn to makemovements with all of their muscles and joints. So it's things like walking,crawling, running, jumping, climbing, anything where they need to use all oftheir muscles and limbs in a coordinated way. Oftentimes gross motor skills arerelated to their core strength. So how strong their trunk muscles are, can theysit up straight, do they have good control and coordination to run and jumpand climb, and do that in a way that is coordinated. Fine motor skills are builton your gross motor skills. Often, in order to have good, quality, strongfine motor skills, you need to have solid gross motor skills.So for fine motor ski...
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Many parents are often confused about the difference between gross motorskills and fine motor skills. Gross motor skills are when children learn to makemovements with all of their muscles and joints. So it's things like walking,crawling, running, jumping, climbing, anything where they need to use all oftheir muscles and limbs in a coordinated way. Oftentimes gross motor skills arerelated to their core strength. So how strong their trunk muscles are, can theysit up straight, do they have good control and coordination to run and jumpand climb, and do that in a way that is coordinated. Fine motor skills are builton your gross motor skills. Often, in order to have good, quality, strongfine motor skills, you need to have solid gross motor skills.So for fine motor ski...
