Motor Sequence

Physical development is orderly and occurs in predictable
sequence. For example, the motor sequence
(order of new movements) for infants involves the following
orderly sequence:
• Head and trunk control ( infant lifts head, watches a
moving object by moving the head from side to side
– occurs in the first few months after birth.
• Infant rolls over turning from the stomach to the back
first, then from back to stomach – four or five months
of age.
• Sit upright in a high chair (requires development of
strength in the back and neck muscles)-four to six
months of age.
• Infant gradually is able to pull self into sitting positions.
• Crawling – occurs soon after the child learns to roll
onto the stomach by pulling with the arms and wiggling
the stomach. Some infants push with the legs.