Reflex Behaviors
... coordination such as grasping keys to unlock a lock. Children reach “milestones” that are achievements of motor development. A skilled achieved such as rolling over can lead to crawling which can eventually lead to walking in motor development. Testing can be given to a child to measure gross and fine motor skills to see if the child is developing normally and neurologically correct. One example of a test given is the Denver-Developmental Screening Test Such tests can not only analyze a child’s physical development but as well as language, personality, and social development. If a child isn’t developing correctly it could be due to a disease or illness that has intervened with their neurological development. There are many different neurological illnesses such as cerebral pausey and mental retardation, can affect and impair a persons cognition and motor development that can eventually make a person unable to function independently as he or she is growing. A person with such illnesses may need the use of adaptive equipment such as a wheel chair for even the function of movement to one area to another due to their inability to walk and need assistance in doing activities of their daily lives. I have chosen the career as an occupational therapist assistant. Occupational therapy provides rehabilitation and skills to persons who are ill or have been injured so that are able to function at a level of independence in doing daily activities of living of work, leisure, and play. Daily activities are actions that people participate in to fulfill different roles as a human being which give a person satisfaction and a feeling of self-worth. Being able to do the simplest of activities involves a lot of motor movement as well as other skills that for functional people take for granted. A daily activity could be to brush one’s teeth. There are a lot of steps involved and developmental skills needed in this activity that a person that is able to do normally does not even think about. T...