Use Body - Stage 1

This section talks about how a child uses each of their body parts together to do an activity. Movements using the big body parts are called gross motor skills, while movements using the smaller body parts are called fine motor skills. This helps us understands how the child participates in and responds to using the combined skills together. We call this "coordination of movement" (like talking, walking, feeling, responding, etc). The brain has a big part in organizing everything that the body sees, hears, feels and plans, which we call "processing and regulation".

Click on the slider at the top to see how children naturally progress through the developmental stages of Body Usage.