Disturbance of locomotion constitutes one of the main physical disabilities in the group of disorders generically termed brain injured child. Moreover, motor disabilities are often futher complicated by perceptual disorders.
The need for a knowledge of normal child development for the assessment, treatment and management of brain injured child.
The developmental sequence is the physical manifastation of neural maturation. As each child progresses through the postural activities within the developmental sequence, normal motor control is acquired.
The following aspects of motor development discussed in this study ; first, the cephalocaudal, proximal to distal direction of development second, autonomic homeostasis third, from reflex dominance to integration .fourth, the stage of motor control fifth, sequencing of postures arid activities and sixth use of the developmental sequences.
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