Perkins Activity and Resource Guide Chapter 3: Motor Development: Gross and Fine Motor Skills: Second Edition: Revised and Updated

This chapter explores key aspects and activities essential for motor development, highlighting the natural progression of motor skills. It addresses how disruptions in visual, auditory, or motor systems can delay this development, with a particular focus on children completely blind since birth, who experience the most significant delays.

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About the Author: Kathy Heydt
Clifford E. Olstrom, was born in 1945 in Lansing, Michigan. Olstrom attended Michigan public schools. He graduated from Western Michigan University with a bachelor's degree in 1967 and a master's degree in Blind Rehabilitation in 1968. He was the supervisor of the Orientation and Mobility Department of the Bureau of Blind Services' Rehabilitation Center in Daytona Beach, Florida from 1968 to 1969 and Orientation and Mobility Instructor in the Hillsborough County Public Schools in Tampa Florida from 1969 to 1971. From 1971 to present, Olstrom has been Executive Director of the Tampa Lighthouse for the Blind, a non-profit rehabilitation agency for persons who are blind or visually impaired.
This chapter will include explanations and helpful activities in the areas that play an important role in motor development. The typical development of motor skills follows a natural, progressive pattern. However, interference with part of the system, be it visual, auditory, motor, etc. will cause delays in motor development. In general, children totally blind since birth exhibit the greatest delays in motor development.

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