Orientation and Mobility: Infants and Toddlers Skills Structure and Routine Motivation

1. Orientation and Mobility: Infants and ToddlersSkillsStructure and RoutineMotivation By: Elizabeth Watt

5. Orientation and Mobility “Movement is life. It is in all we do on a daily basis…for children, movement is also the natural learning medium. It is by which they explore the environment, learn how it function and interact with it.” -Rosen, 1997

6. O&M: Motor Skills 0-6 Mos. 6-12 Mos. • Prone-Hold head up • Brings hands together • Rolls over • Sits with support • Reaches for objects • Transfers objects • Sits without support • Experience Finger Foods • Pulls to standing

7. O&M: Motor Skills Baby 0-6 Months

8. O&M: Motor SkillsBaby 6-12 Mos.

9. O&M: Motor Skills 1-2 Years • Walks steadily • Runs • Throws a ball • Scribbles 2-3 Years • Walks on line • Alternates feet on stairs • Walks on tip toes

10. O&M: Motor Skills 3-4 Years • Jump • Throw a ball overhead • Push, pull, steer wheeled toys 4-5 Years • Walk backwards to-heal • Jump forward 10 times without falling

11. O&M: Structure and Routine • Through my experiences in teaching, I have realized that structure and routine play an important role in my daily schedule and students’ success.

12. O&M: Structure and Routines • Consistency! • As children become more aware and used to the activities in their schedule then they may become exited (Anticipatory Reaction). • Toys used daily should always be placed in consistent areas.

13. O&M: Learn through Play • Music • Songs can help children learn names of body parts and directions. • “I felt a lady bug”-Body Parts • “How many Hands?”-Body Parts • “Head and Shoulders”-Body Parts • “A tapping with your cane”-Directions • “Simon Says” – Directions and Body Parts

14. O&M: Learn through Play • Explore • Investigate • Discover • Experience • Listening Play • Cane Play • Familiarize with feeling • Feels different when it makes contact with different objects • Texture Play • Make boxes with similar textures in them • Pointing Play

15. O&M: Learn through Play

16. O&M: Learn through Play

17. O&M: Motivation From Adults… • Parents • Caregivers • Professionals Encouragement & Praise From Objects themselves… • Sounds • Smells • Different Textures • Encouraging environment set-up

18. References • Anonymous, (2012). Gross motor skills for 36-48 & 48-60 moth olds. Retrieved from http://www.earlyinterventionsupport.com/development/grossmotor/48-60months.aspx • Anonymous, (2012). Orientation and Mobility for Babies. Retrieved from http://www.wonderbaby.org/articles/orientation-mobility-babies • Ihsen, E., Troester, H., & Brambring, M. (2010). The role of sound in encouraging infants with congenital blindness to reach for objects. Journal of Visual Impairment & Blindness, 104(8) 478-488. • Rosen, S. (1997). In Blasch, Weirner, & Welch (Eds.) Foundations of Orientation and Mobility, second edition (p. 170-199) New York: AFB Press. • Shier, S. (1985). The roots of orientation and mobility: Birth to three years. Retrieved from http://www.tsbvi.edu/orientation-a-mobility/3229-the-roots-of-orientation-and-mobility-birth-to-three-years • Wood, M. (n.a.) Using routines in orientation and mobility lessons to encourage purposeful movement with infants and toddlers. Retrieved from http://www.tsbvi.edu/resources/3305-using-routines-in-orientation-and-mobility-lessons-to-encourage-purposeful-movement-with-infants-and-toddlers