Indoor and Outdoor Games: Developing Gross Motor Skills
Gross motor skills (GMS) are a vital component of a child’s development. Monitoring levels and correlates of GMS is important to ensure appropriate strategies are put in place to promote these skills in young children. Global developmental delay (GDD) is defined as a significant delay in two or more developmental domains including gross or fine motor, speech/language, cognitive, social/ personal, and activities of daily living and is thought to predict a future diagnosis of intellectua. One of the best ways in which parents can help their children is to organize indoor and outdoor games activities. This essay will explore the role of indoor and outdoor games in children's gross motor development.
Goodway et al. states gross motor skills also include in developmental delay. There are gender differences in gross motor delay with boys having better object control skills than girls (both are still delayed), but with no gender differences in loco motor skills. It is very important for children in performing their everyday functions. Gross motor activities are big movements that use the arms, legs, and the entire body. Delayed in gross motor skills can be identifying by the way they act like standing, crawling, and kicking. The other normal children can do activities such as crawling and walking by their age at 9 months. However, children with gross motor skills delay might be unable to correctly step and facing the fail on perform movement safely. Every children’s progressing are in different rates but normally every children can walk within 12 months. Every development about children must be updates so that they will grow up like the other children without any development delay.
Gross motor skills are also known as physical skills that every child needs to achieve. They usually do these activities and movements such as at the age of 6 months, they can sit without any help. While at the age of 15 months, they can run and walks backwards without any help. Children with a gross motor skills delay can be detect by their action such as low energy level. As a result, they avoid doing any physical activity or only involving in for only short period. These children also can be seem easily because of the condition that seem lethargic and taking too much time to respond to stimuli around them.
As for other children, gross motor skills can be detected on their performances in any activities which are slower than their friends whether they are playing or studying. They also can’t maintain their posture body longer than other children or maintain an upright posture when they are sitting on a mat or at a table. Gross motor skills delaying are due to medical problems but there are also other causes such as genetic disorder, premature birth, and developmental delay such as autism. Although we have list the causes, it’s still difficult in giving other prevention step to prevent this delay.
Any assessment tools should be creating to attract children attention as indoor and outdoor games in developing their muscle on their gross motor skills. As for indoor games, teachers can give them some activities to play together with friends such as hop scoth, catching and balancing their posture in one leg. For outdoor activities, they can freely play on playground provided such as climbing and swinging or catching each other. Teachers have to make sure that they keep an eye to them so that nothing bad happened to them while playing together with friends. Teacher also must not pressure them to do the activities as they have a lower energy than their other friends, pay more attention towards them so they have some spirits to listens to their teachers. Children with gross motor skills delay mostly lose their mastered skills easily if they not keep practicing their usual activities. The activities must keep doing every day in school.
For indoor games, the suggestion games that they can play such as swimming, decorate class, playing chess and play fitness ball. The balls must be given freely to the children, allow the children to play it by themselves such as bounce and sit on them. This entire different ball must be categorized to keep their concentration. Swimming also important as their gross motor have to move which were muscles on legs, hands and body. Decoration on the classroom also should be done by the children themselves as it will develop their brain and motor skills in moving and thinking to make something more beautiful. The teachers and parents should keep giving positive comments on all of their activities and progression so that they will be more motivated.
As the conclusion, the best solution for parents to take to avoid gross motor skills delay for children is to prevent. This is because, the gross motor skills delay that can be detected on the children at a young age. Parents should take notice about their children development by taking advice from the special educators before bring the children to pediactrians. Some of the special physical therapy will be given to the children in helping them become more active in practicing the motor skills by strengths and coordination.
As some actions have been taken, the children have to take care carefully as it will always become helpful on the children to make decisions. They also have the guidance and support from their parents. These opportunities which were given by their parents to practice motor skills may cause positive results in the children’s development. By encouraging the children to try the skills, they become more comfortable to give a best shot so their parents can be proud of it.
