Early Motor

What are Motor

Development

and Perceptual Skills?

Reflexes

Kids

Motor Skills
Motor Development refers to a childs changes in
abili- ty to control body movements. These include
your childs reflexes, and milestones in their
movement that occur in the beginning years of life.

on

the Move

Perceptual Skills
Perceptual development refers to a childs changes
in ability to take in, interpret, and organize sensory
in- formation. These skills include the refinement of
the five senses.

A guide to your childs

motor and perceptual
development

Reflexes serve survival functions when

children are very young, such as sucking
and rooting. Others are precursors to
voluntary motions, such as stepping and its
eventual transformation into walking.

Understanding your childs motor and perceptual

development can be a guide through several
exciting and critically important years in your
childs life, and provide you with information on
whats to come!

Created by Sarah Hennessy

What Does My

Infant Hear?

Infant Smell and

Taste?

-infants can hear before birth at 7-8 months

in utero

Take a look!

What can I expect in the coming

Where
months?
is my child n

Motor Milesto

What Does My

-prefer high pitches

-all sounds and all languages

-Newborns prefer sweet tastes

-Salty taste preference at 4 months
-Sensitive to breast milks flavors
-Prefer mothers scent

-at 4 months, infants can distinguish vowel

and

What Does My
Infant See?
-full color distinctions by 3 months
-adult acuity by 6-12 months
-prefer mothers face over others

-Your infant experiences pain!

-Sensitive to hot and cold
-Mouth, feet, and palms most sensitive

What Does My Infant Feel?