Developmental Stages
Toddlers Go Through With Throwing
Cognitive age 12-36 months.
Early childhood forms a crucial stage when it comes to the growth of an individual. And when your little one is at the cognitive age of roughly 12 to 36 months, it is especially important because this phase is a transition from infancy to childhood.
Parenting an impaired child can be a tad challenging as the child is unable to express himself or herself coherently. Their actions and behavior often belie other emotions and are aimed at getting attention.
Occupational therapy works with the child to develop functional hand skills to help progress through this stage.
There are a number of characteristics that hinder a child’s fine motor grasp development skills. These are as follows:
- Poor, floppy, and limp muscle toning
- Hyposensitivity or hypersensitivity
- Lack of dexterity and motor control
- Fine motor skills
Fine motor skills refer to the movements made and acted out by the small muscles of the hand, which develop as the child grows.
Why Toddlers Throw Things
Before proceeding any further, it is important to comprehend why toddlers throw things. As babies grow, so do their motor skills. In fact, the development of motor skills is a major milestone in toddlers and has very little to do with behavior problems.
Here are some of the reasons why toddlers throw things:
- Expressing Emotions - A toddler may have learned to communicate,but this does not mean that they are great at expressing with words. Various emotions that they feel often go unexpressed. Throwing things or acting out unnecessarily could signify underlying problems like hunger, tiredness, or sickness.
- Exploring Abilities - Curiosity about the surroundings is very natural in toddlers. The world is filled with wonders for them which they want to explore. Throwing things is one way of exploring as it allows them to see what follows when something is tossed. Experimenting and repeating is a child’s way of living until it becomes a pattern.
- Just For Fun - Once a toddler learns to throw things and see it tossed around, they could be repeating it on purpose because it’s a fun process that makes them happy. They may simply enjoy watching objects splatter on walls and bounce off the floor.
- Practice releasing objects from their hands. Coordinated release or letting go of objects on purpose is a difficult task to master, especially for children with special needs. Throwing objects is the first step in developing a coordinated release, besides being fun, throwing also assists in functional hand skill development.
Children with special needs tend to take longer than typically developing children to make it through stages, but don't worry they'll make it through this stage too. The next stage is putting objects into containers. Try to encourage throwing objects into containers to help them move to the next developmental stage.
Developmental Stages of Grasp and Release
For a toddler, the sequence of release has the following pattern:
0-9 months old toddlers simply drop objects.
9-month old toddlers release objects against other surfaces.
10-month-old toddlers exhibit crude release.
11-month old toddlers clumsily release large objects.
12-month-old toddlers exhibit voluntary and smooth
release of large objects
15-months-old toddlers release all objects voluntarily
and smoothly, with control.
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Source Links:
https://nesc.k12.sd.us/resources/Release%20&%20Grasp%20Developmental%20Milestones.pdf
https://parenting.firstcry.com/articles/understanding-why-toddlers-throw-things-and-what-to-do-about-it/
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https://www.birthinjuryguide.org/birth-injury/treatment/occupational-therapy/
https://1specialplace.com/2019/05/14/5-signs-that-your-child-needs-occupational-therapy/?v=c86ee0d9d7ed
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