Fine motor training

What is fine motor skills and why is it so important?

Specialists in the field of child psychology, speech therapy have long established that the level of speech development of children is directly dependent on the degree of development of fine motor skills of the hand. If finger movements develop«planfully»The development of speech is also within the norm. If the development of the fingers lags behind, the development of speech lags behind.

Why are these two components so interrelated? The fact is that our ancestors communicated with the help of gestures, gradually adding exclamations, shouts. The movements of the fingers gradually improved. In this regard, there was an increase in the area of motor projection of the hand in the human brain.

The speech developed in parallel. About the same develops speech and fine motor skills in a child, that is, first begin to develop movements of the fingers, when they reach sufficient fineness, begins the development of verbal speech. The development of finger movements seems to prepare the ground for the subsequent formation of speech.

Scientists have proved that from an anatomical point of view, about a third of the entire area of the motor projection of the cerebral cortex is occupied by the projection of the hand, located very close to the speech zone. It is the magnitude of the projection of the hand and its proximity to the motor zone that give rise to the consideration of the hand as«speech»The same as the articulation apparatus. In this regard, it was suggested that the significant influence of fine finger movements on the formation and development of the child's speech function. Therefore, to teach the baby to speak, it is necessary not only to train his articulation apparatus, but also to develop finger movements, or fine motor skills.

Fine motor skills of the hands interact with such higher properties of consciousness as attention, thinking, optical-spatial perception (coordination), imagination, observation, visual and motor memory, speech. The development of fine motor skills is also important because the rest of the child’s life will require the use of accurate, coordinated movements of the hands and fingers, which are necessary to dress, draw and write, as well as perform a variety of household and educational activities.

What is the best way to develop fine motor skills?

You can massage the fingers and hands of the baby, give him to go through large, and then smaller objects.–Buttons, beads, cereals. A good assistant in the development of fine motor skills will be various educational toys that parents can make themselves.

Classes on the development of fine motor skills should be carried out systematically for 2-5 minutes daily. Despite the fact that at first many exercises are given to the child with difficulty, they bring him a lot of joy, both from the results achieved and from simple communication with the mother. Finger gymnastics contributes to the development of fine motor skills, speech, basic mental processes, as well as communicativeness. By the end of preschool age, the hands of the child become more mobile and flexible, which contributes to the successful mastery of writing skills in the future.

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