ALH1PAL Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Palmar Grasp Reflex, Proquest, Primitive Reflexes
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Need to be able to recognise atypical development and have a good understanding of the sequence of development. Gross motor development, fine motor development, expressive and receptive communication development from birth to age 5. Read page 60 - 64 childhood development - https://ebookcentral-proquest- com. ez. library. latrobe. edu. au/lib/latrobe/reader. action?docid=1429844&ppg=61. Newborn babies delivered at full term have primitive reflexes. Reflexes are stereotypical movement patterns in response to stimuli. For example, in a healthy newborn, placing your finger in the baby"s palm will elicit the palmar grasp reflex: the baby will grasp your hand firmly. These reflexes diminish over the first 4-6 months of life. Postural reactions begin to emerge between approximately 3 and 8 months of age. Persistence of the primitive reflexes, or delayed development of the postural reactions is often the sign of a neurological abnormality. Movement development in the broadest sense is based on what came before. Each movement learned is used again in a slightly different way to achieve something else.
