The motor activity | Early detection of a dyscalculia

The motor activity

In principle, any movement that is carried out consciously and therefore arbitrarily falls under the area of “motor skills”. This involves various activities of the musculature, tensing and relaxing, but also stretching and bending. A distinction is made between two areas: In contrast to fine motor skills, the movement forms of gross motor skills are not limited to the hand.

They affect the entire body. The following areas fall into the area of fine motor skills: In principle, the movements of gross motor skills are forms of movement in which several areas of the body are addressed. In contrast, everything that is done with the hand falls into the area of fine motor skills.

The term “hand motor skills” is often used synonymously. Fine motor skills develop at different ages. In a newborn baby, the grasping reflex is already developed, which then becomes more specific. The child perceives the world with its hands more and more and finally learns to consciously grasp different objects. In the course of the development of fine motor skills, a distinction is made between different forms of grasping, such as

  • Crawling
  • Go
  • Running (and the different subforms)
  • Jumping (also in the different variations, such as: jumping, winding, rope jumping)
  • Throwing
  • Catch
  • Climbing
  • Lifting
  • The monkey handle
  • The scissor handle
  • The tweezer handle
  • The pointed handle (which is needed when holding a pencil)
  • The ability to move fingers in isolation from each other and to use different (mixed) shapes of grips.
  • Gross motor skills
  • Fine motor skills

Promotion of motor skills

The promotion and training of the motoric areas is of elementary importance and must be promoted in the infancy – freely after the motto: What Hans does not learn, Hans will never learn again, or rather hard. All areas that have already been mentioned in the description of the two motor areas serve to promote motor skills. Movement can only be learned through movement!

Be a role model and avoid under all circumstances the merely consuming posture (too much television, too much computer play, etc.). Make sure that you are able to practice sports activities. If there are deficits in the morotic development, therapeutic intervention can be taken.

One speaks of a so-called psychomotor therapy, which also addresses the different areas of perception mentioned above in addition to muscle-building elements. There are also different materials and devices that can train and improve the motor areas. Everything that trains the sense of balance is of enormous importance.