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A motor skill is a skill that requires an organism to utilize their skeletal muscles effectively. Motor skills and motor control depend upon the proper functioning of the brain, skeleton, joints, and nervous system. Most motor skills are learned in early childhood, although disabilities can affect motor skills development. Motor development is the development of action and coordination of one's limbs, as well as the development of strength, posture control, balance, and perceptual skills.

Motor skills are divided into two parts: Gross motor skills include lifting one's head, rolling over, sitting up, balancing, crawling, and walking. Gross motor development usually follows a pattern. Generally large muscles develop before smaller ones. Thus, gross motor development is the foundation for developing skills in other areas (such as fine motor skills). Development also generally moves from top to bottom. The first thing a baby usually learns is to control its head. Fine motor skills include the ability to manipulate small objects, transfer objects from hand to hand, and various hand-eye coordination tasks. Fine motor skills may involve the use of very precise motor movement in order to achieve an especially delicate task. Some examples of fine motor skills are using the pincer grasp (thumb and forefinger) to pick up small objects, cutting, coloring and writing, and threading beads. Fine motor development refers to the development of skills involving the smaller muscle groups.

Fine Motor Disabilities negatively impact a child's performance in school but have no bearing on their intellectual ability. It strictly speaks to an individual’s struggle to control the small muscles in their hand as they write. Since communication in the form of writing is important and still heavily relied upon in our society and schools, kids with this disability face a variety of obstacles. Simply writing their name is not only time consuming, it may also end up illegible. To make their work legible, these individuals must exert a great deal of focus and energy which leaves very little left over for concentrating on what they are writing about. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Sshin27 (talkcontribs) 14:35, september 8, 2008 (UTC)

A skill associated with muscle activity. Skills performed in sport form a continuum from fine to gross motor skills. Some sports scientists object to the prefix ‘motor’ being used on its own because it implies the skill is largely a motor reflex. They prefer to use terms, such as perceptual motor skill, psychomotor skill, or sensorimotor skill because such terms emphasize the mental components of movement skills. A skilled movement can be defined as a product of four different elements: force, velocity, accuracy, and purposefulness. In a skilful performance, all four elements must be performed at the same time in exactly the right combination and amount • contribs) 14:35, september 8, 2008 (UTC)

good site for "movement disorder"

Here is good site for "Movement disorder" I hope it to be helpful to your study. http://www.wemove.org/par/par.html —Preceding unsigned comment added by Sshin27 (talkcontribs) 14:52, August 28, 2007 (UTC)

Reversions

I am about to revert three IP edits. One looks like vandalism; one is an extremely dubious change in the definition. I am not aware that a motor skill needs to involve precise repetition; this would need a source. The third is an added paragraph that describes a Swedish study but makes only very vague statements and provides only a web link as source. Wikipedia material needs to be referenced to reputable published studies, preferably to review papers rather than primary research publications. Looie496 (talk) 18:39, 21 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Foolishness

If you guys keep this up, I'm going to ask for this article to be protected against editing. So enough of the nonsense, please. Regards, Looie496 (talk) 16:21, 23 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]