Part 1: Gross Motor development across the lifespan and early intervention

• What is gross motor development and how it influences development.
• Gross motor milestones: Infancy, toddlerhood, preschooler, school age
• Early intervention
• Factors influencing gross motor development
• Evaluation and assessment
• Individualized intervention planning: The value of a bottom up approach
• Community- based intervention: Ethics and Community Based Rehabilitation principles.

Part 2: The bottom up approach to gross motor development

• What is gross motor development and how it influences development.
• The developmental trajectory of gross motor skill development
• Breaking down specific skills:
  • Tactile Discrimination
  • Visual Discrimination
  • Proprioceptive Discrimination
  • Vestibular Discrimination
  • Motor Control
  • Muscle Tone
  • Reflex Integration
  • Body Schema
  • Balance
  • Dissociation of movement
  • Postural Control
  • Ocular motor
  • Bilateral Integration
  • Laterality and Dominance
  • Midline Crossing
  • Sequencing
  • Hand Eye Coordination
  • Praxis
• The importance of skills based intervention.