LABORATORY ACTIVITIES & PRACTICAL EXPERIENCES

Detailed Child Study

1)Identify a child aged between 3 and 9 years with which you can work for about 30-45 minutes. Record the child’s age in months and gender and come up with a pseudo name for your child.

2)Observe your child performing all of the FMS listed in the table below. Stage the child on all of the skills and use this table to collect your data and then record the data in a typed format in this table. In order to provide the predicted stage and age based on stage you will need to use your 60% chart in your textbook.

3)Interview your child and/or parent/s and provide a written response to the following things about your child:

-Family status - do they live with both parents, one parent, grandparents

-Number of siblings, birth order, etc.

-Favorite games, sports, activities – focus on activities that are physically active

-Availability of places to play outside (e.g. park, yard, etc.)

-Availability of other children around with whom to play

-Types of toys she/he plays with at home – favorite toy

-Out of school activities he/she and the family engage in

-Types of activities with which they participate with parents

4)Provide a brief description of your perceptions of the physical status of your child. Provide the height, weight, and BMI of your child including their percentile rank compared to other children (use your text book to determine these figures). Briefly describe your perceptions of any other relevant physical characteristics such as physique, fitness, and general strength.

5)Discuss the developmental status of your child with respect to each of the 5 locomotor skills (e.g. discuss each skill and discuss if the child is advanced, at age, or delayed). Use the child’s age and stage and the 60% chart to make these decisions.Write this in a manner that a parent could understand. You should describe each individual skill and then provide an overall view of the child’s overalllocomotor skill development.

6)Discuss the developmental status of your child with respect to each of the 5 manipulative skills (e.g. discuss each skill and discuss if the child is advanced, at age, or delayed).Use the child’s age and stage and the 60% chart to make these decisions. Write this in a manner that a parent could understand. You should describe each individual skill and provide an overall view of the child’s manipulative skill development.

7)Discuss how the information you found out about your child’s home life explains the child’s level of development. In other words, what types of things do they do at home that might explain the child’s opportunity to move and thus their developmental motor skill status.

8)Select 1 manipulative skill – describe in detail one instructional activity for each skill that is appropriate to the child’s level of development and will promote skill development in that skill. What we are looking for here is an activity that aligns with the developmental stage of the child.

9)Given the motor development data you found out on your child, identify five specific recommendations that you would give the parents based on what you found out from your evaluation. That is, what kinds of things could the parent do to help the child with his/her motor skill development. These recommendations need to be very specific and not general like “work on throwing at home”. Tell the parent what and how to do your suggestion.

Motor Development Summary Table

Skill

/ Observed Stage / Predicted Stage / Age Based on Stage /

Comments on Technique

Throw
Kick
Catch
Strike
Dribble (see criteria) – List # of criteria / No stage for this skill
Run
Hop
Skip
Jump
Gallop / No 60% data for this skill available

Dribble Criteria: 1) Pushes with fingertips, 2) Ball rebounds to waist high, 3) Controls ball for 5 dribbles in place, 4) Ball contacts floor on outside of foot of dribbling hand