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Moving and Sensing

Is Your Child Struggling With Coordination, Sensory Awareness, and Motor Skills?

Moving and sensing skills in childhood include gross motor skills (running, jumping, climbing), fine motor skills (handwriting, stringing beads, building with blocks), and sensory regulation (responding to lights, sounds, smells, tastes, and touch sensations). Children can have strengths and weaknesses in several of these areas without any cause for concern. In the articles that follow, you can learn about the types of sensorimotor skills that can impact your child’s development and whether or not intervention is needed.

The articles in this facet include topics such as coordination, handwriting, body space awareness, and sensory sensitivity. Visit this page for general information about moving and sensing.

Young boy doing a bicep curl with a weight.
Moving and Sensing

Is Your Child Having Moving and Sensing Problems?

Child doing sit-ups while an adult holds their feet.
Two children racing in laundry baskets strapped to skateboards.
Young child scrunching up their face.
Two girls with long blond hair holding hands running on a path into a forest.
Three children at desks looking at a teacher writing on the chalkboard.
Girl in pink dress twirling around in a circle.
Girl holding her hands palm up with pointer fingers separate from other fingers.
Boy pinching his nose from smell.
Young girl throwing a red ball in the air.
Little girl writing in a notebook.
Four girls standing closely together.
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