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Child Motor Skills
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Questions & Answers - Motor Concerns
My daughter just turned 12 months old last week. She has great
development of her fine motor, social, cognitive and language
skills. She is starting to cruise in between objects and will walk
while holding on to our hands. She is attempting to use push toys
while we hold her from behind. She has refused to crawl and has
never liked to be on her tummy much. When she was small I was able
to keep her happy for a while on her tummy with toys. Since she has
figured out how to walk I cannot get her to do it. She sits up
without support, but cannot get from a laying position to sitting
without help. She walks and cruises fine, but pulling up is still a
challenge.
She can do it only with a butt boost or pulling up by
grabbing our hands. She seems to just cry when I am trying to
encourage her to crawl by putting objects far for her to reach. She
will scoot or stretch to get them. She does slightly get on her
knees, but never has gotten to the hands and knees position. She
just cries when I put her on her belly and rolls over. I encourage
her to roll on her side to push herself to a sitting position. She
can do it with holding one hand up for her and she pushes with the
other. My instinct says that the core muscle weakness she has is
from not using it, but I am concerned. I was wondering if you had
any helpful hints to get her to do floor exercises. It seems like
she just puts her head down and cries when I try. Should I be
worried that this is more than just lack of use?
Thanks for your question. I would definitely recommend you make a
referral for an early intervention evaluation for your daughter. This is
the link to
Florida's Early Steps Program. She may just need more core
strengthening as you suggested, but a PT can give you great ideas on
ways to work on these skills through play at home.
You can find many ideas for ways to encourage belly time and hand/knee
play & crawling at these links on our website.
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Questions & Answers - Motor Concerns
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