Child Development Infant observation Christina Constance ECE 205 introduction to child development Instructor; Amanda Dixon June 20, 2016
The video showed a childcare teacher that was sitting on the floor with three infants and involving the three infants in an activity. The activity that was shown in the video involved a plastic bottle (this bottle looked like a 64 ounce bottle that had juice in it) with the top opened and some wooden clothes pins. Each one of the infants in the video had one clothes pin. The childcare teacher held the plastic bottle in front of each infant one by one and the goal was for them to drop the clothes pin right into the plastic bottle. Even though the video showed all three infants participating in the activity, the main focus seemed to be on the third infant, which was a blonde headed little boy.
The blonde headed infant boy was holding three clothespins in his right hand. The teacher placed the plastic bottle in front of the blonde infant boy to
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This is the palmer grasp this typical when first developing voluntary motor skills. The infant seems to be at the approximate age to be using the most advanced grasp that is known as the pincher grasp to hold the clothespin. Futagi and Suzuki(2012) Described that an infant’s use of the palmers grasp sets aside after six months and just goes away between nine months and twelve months where a more voluntary grasp is being used. (Pg2) In the video it shows the infant does not release the or let the clothespin drop in the bottle which shows that the fine motor skills needs to be