Using a fork to eat, zipping up a sweatshirt and turning a doorknob are all things most people do without thinking, but children spend their early years developing and refining these abilities. They ...

What can settings do to support fine and gross motor skills? Georgina Durrant reports Motor development is often split into fine motor skills and gross motor skills. Fine motor skill activities are ...

Early years practitioners can do a lot to boost young children's manipulative development, says Penny Tassoni - while leaving them to play at their own pace Early years practitioners can do a lot to ...

Early childhood development includes acquiring fine and gross motor skills. While both these skills involve movement, they do have differences: Fine motor skills involve movement of the smaller muscle ...

Skill by Skill will provide therapeutic fine motor and sensory skill training to preschoolers in a play-based group setting. Groups will be run by registered and licensed occupational therapists.

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Every task we perform needs proper coordination and support from our muscles and tissues in the body. This coordination between muscles, movement and functioning is called motor skills. These skills ...