ABSTRACT
Movement begins even before birth and skills are developed through reflexes. These reflexes assist with the birthing process, support survival and provide rudimentary training for developing voluntary skills and movement. These reflexes are inhibited by the brain as the skills develop. Examples of primitive reflexes include rooting and the startle reflex. In early childhood there is no difference in the requirements or achievements of boys and girls. By the age of 3, a child should have gained all the basic gross motor movement skills he will require, but will continue to develop and refine them, yet without intervention children with severe vision impairment will drop below the normal developmental timelines. For small children, movement is often an uncoordinated mix between walking and running. Scissors can be hard for severely sight impaired children. Without vision to see and model the action, understanding such a complex movement is difficult.
