Play & Development
How Kids Learn to Move – Part 2: Crawling and Rolling to Assess and Treat Movement Problems
By Randi Kinney, PT, DPT, MTC In part 1, I spoke about how movement patterns naturally develop in humans from reflexive, involuntary movements to purposeful, voluntary actions. You will now see how this information is the guide we use to best assess and treat common...
How Kids Learn to Move – Part 1: The Importance of Rolling and Crawling
By Randi Kinney, PT, DPT, MTC Unlike other animals, human movement is not mature at birth, and our anatomical structure is not perfectly developed. Think of the difference of a newborn baby versus a newborn horse or puppy. The horse or puppy come out of the womb and...
The Missing Link to Movement Mastery: Part 8 – Auditory Awareness
By Craig Valency, MA, CSCS Introduction As I discussed in my introductory post, the missing link to true movement mastery is learning the 9 perceptual-motor skills as early as possible. As fitness professionals, teachers, therapists, or parents, we have a unique...
The Missing Link to Movement Mastery: Part 7 – Vestibular Awareness
By Craig Valency, MA, CSCS Introduction As I discussed in my introductory post, the missing link to true movement mastery is learning the 9 perceptual-motor skills as early as possible. As fitness professionals, teachers, therapists, or parents, we have a unique...
The Missing Link to Movement Mastery: Part 6 – Visual Awareness
By Craig Valency, MA, CSCS Introduction As I discussed in my introductory post, the missing link to true movement mastery is learning the 9 perceptual-motor skills as early as possible. As fitness professionals, teachers, therapists, or parents, we have a unique...
Training Kids for sports – Part 1: The Importance of Free Play!
By Jeff King, MA, CSCS My name is Jeff King and I am the Director of Athletics at Fitness Quest 10 in San Diego. Over the past nine years, I have had the great opportunity to work with young athletes. Thousands of hours training kids have created many positive...
Strategies To Enhance Kids’ Success In School – Using the Power of the “Hidden Senses”
By Lisa White, OTR It is an honor to be asked to contribute this month as a guest blogger. In case you missed it, April was Occupational Therapy Month! For those who are unfamiliar with occupational therapy, or OT for short, I would like to help explain who we are and...
The Missing Link to Movement Mastery: Part 5 – Temporal Awareness
By Craig Valency, MA, CSCS Introduction As I discussed in my introductory post, the missing link to true movement mastery is learning the 9 perceptual-motor skills as early as possible. As fitness professionals, teachers, therapists, or parents, we have a unique...
The Missing Link to Movement Mastery: Part 4 – Spatial Awareness
by Craig Valency, MA, CSCS Introduction As I discussed in my introductory post, the missing link to true movement mastery is learning the 9 perceptual-motor skills as early as possible. As fitness professionals, teachers, therapists, or parents, we have a unique...
The Missing Link to Movement Mastery: Part 3 – Directional Awareness
By Craig Valency, MA, CSCS Introduction As I discussed in the first post in this series, the missing link to true movement mastery is learning the 9 perceptual-motor skills as early as possible. As fitness professionals, teachers, therapists, or parents, we have a...
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