Gross Motor Skills

Gross motor (physical) skills are those which require whole body movement and which involve the large (core stabilising) muscles of the body to perform everyday functions, such as standing and walking, running and jumping, and sitting upright at the table. They also includes eye-hand coordination skills such as ball skills (throwing, catching, kicking) as well as riding a bike or a scooter and swimming.

Red flags for Gross Motor Development (6-19) http://www.kamloopschildrenstherapy.org/school-aged-gross-motor-milestones

If you notice the following you may want to talk to you physician or health professional or make a referral yourself:

• Your child is not doing what he/she should do for his age

• Child walks funny

• Child walks on his toes all the time

• There seems to be something wrong with the child’s legs or feet

• Child complains of persistant pain or fatigue

• Gross Motor skills are regressing

• Child is excessively clumsy