EDRP 2111 -04

The Impact Sensory Organs and Motor Skills Have on a Child

Alexus Watson
The University of Memphis

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The Impact Sensory Organs and Motor Skills Have on a Child

Children normally engage with parents or surroundings early on in life. Rather your child
is laughing at the weird faces you make at them, the children songs we sing or the books we read
children begin to get in engage early. So what normally happens to a child who doesnt engage?
As a parent do we question rather they will be behind academically, socially and mentally around
others kids? Is there a disability problem most of all we wonder is my child aright. Normally
your child is just fine. Many children have a technique or getting involved on their own. Based
on what the child environment may be or how much you interact with your child can play a role
in children development. Some children develop faster than others and some later. Some children
may learn something and catch on very easy compared to another child it may take months. A
great theorist by the name of Piaget developed a theory, Piaget Cognitive Development. Piaget
believed that we humans are functioning bodies and made up of integrated parts he also stated
that we are naturally involved in activities around us in our environment which allows us humans
to adjust and survive life. (Piaget & Inhelder 1969)
A more broad and vivid way the theory was divided into four stages. The first was
Sensorimotor Stage the begging where the child starts developing age range from 0-2. Piaget
stated infants are born with specific sets or reflexes in which helps the infant gain their ability
and their five senses. In sensorimotor stage the type of thought the child may have are motor
schemas, sensory info and limitation. Skills learned during this stage are object permanence and
language. Sensorimotor, functional and constructive are three types of plays that go on during the
sensorimotor stage. The second stage was known as Preopereations the children during this stage
are ages 2-7 they start to understand things around them. The type of thought the child may show

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during this stage egocentrism, symbolic, representation and animistic thought. Skills learned are
conservation, reversibility classification and the play the children perform symbolic and makebelieve play. The third stage Piaget focused the child begin to have thinking and reasoning in
concrete ways about concrete ideas this stage is known as the Concrete Operations and the
children may range from ages 7 to 11. The thought they start having is logical and concrete.
Skills they tend to master are conservation, operations, centration and hierarchical classification.
In this stage the play begins to be games with rules involved. The last stage the Formal Operation
children are 11 & up so these stages that normally stays with the child for the reminder of life.
The thought becomes abstract skills learned hypothetico-deductive reasoning and critical
thinking and the type of play starts to be social relationship. During this stage the child is
required to think abstractly unlike the last four stages were the child only had to reason about
either their immediate environments or concrete concepts. (Piaget & Inhelder, 1969)

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To continue, the sensorimotor stage when a child develop sensory organs and motor
skills. According to Piaget from birth infant motor development becomes inextricability linked to
cognitive development. Piaget mentioned motor skills and sensory organs are the ways in which
infants take in and experience the world during the first years of life. (Piaget, 1962) Sensory
organs is organ that all children have in the body that responds by conveying impulses to the
sensory nervous system and motor skills are the simple things children learn to do such as
walking jumping and running. The impact the Sensory Organs and Motor Skills have on a Child
life is very important. The early childhood years birth until the child is about nine is critical
period for the establishment for motor skills which have impact on a child physical, cognitive
development and social. (Cools, De Martelar, Samaey and Andries, 2009: Cheatum &Hammond
2000) It has also been said during these critical years of life the neural pathways go through a
process as myelination so people who are educators and caregivers for children are able to
provide enriched sensorimotor environments thats allows the child to grow and develop in many
areas. (Leppo, David & Crim, 2000) The impact the sensory organs system and motor skills have
on children for one its the developing of a child early years, the development of the skills
happen in a process known as Sensorimotor stage according to the theorist Piaget and sensory
organs which also causes the brain to learn new things and allow the motor skills to develop in a
child.
Developing of a child early years is very important and plays a major role in a child life.
During these first few weeks a child have life you may notice that he/she may use allot of their
natural reflexes. These natural reflexes children tend to have can range around sucking, gasping,
and even crying. Crying can be consider a reflex because a child know that the breast or bottle is
what provides food crying can be an attention grabber for the parents to feed the child it then

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becomes a natural reflex. Olds stated that from birth, the child uses movement as a gateway to
discover life round them as an induvial. (Olds, 1994) In the first few weeks they also can alert
the parents for other natural reflexes like when they have a bad diaper or sleep may be needed.
For a child these reflexes they experience around this age are just involuntary reflexes. For
children the organ system connects with the child brain sending signals to the motor skills to run
and allows them to develop in different areas. When the brain sends signals helping motor skills
connect a child then notice that their movements can control things around them. They notice
how much impact they have on the world around them. The pull and snatch of items around them
they are attracted to musical things and bright flashy light. Motor skills begin to connect with the
world around them.
An additional impact that sensory organs and motor skills is the process known as
Sensorimotor this process in which a child sensory organs work along with the motor skills and
allows the child to have growth and develop. Piaget split the Sensorimotor Stage into six
substages which each describe where a child should be during the time of growth. The first stage
focus on the child reflexes and how they allow them to gain things from other around them with
the natural reflexes they have. The second substage the infant begin be interested to both listen
and watch things around them now notice the objects in the environment activate more than one
sense at a time. Third substages the child notice they have an impact on the world around them.
Fourth develop coordinate action plans to anticipate with things in the environment. The fifth
stage the child is active and up and running they wonder about missing objects. The last stage the
child can now think and use symbols.
Last but not least the impact that sensory organs and motor skills allow the brain to learn
new things and allow the motor skills to take action. Are a long-term brain-function, cognition

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behavior and productivity in a child (Couperus JW & Nelson CA 2006) once the motor skills
take action in the child they develop and can go to discover a little more of what life has to offer.
During this time the child in learning new things around them nutrition becomes very important.
Nutrition is very important during pregnancy and the early stages in a child life which are known
as the crucial periods of the brain for a child, laying the foundation for the development of
cognitive, motor and socio-emotional skills throughout childhood. (Couperus JW & Nelson CA
2006) The brain learns different techniques and how the child can cope through life. Motor skills
become more than just gasping and sucking it is more open and they start to be more engage in
their surroundings. The brain is now a power tool helping with motor skills. During the
developing of the brain scientist suggest nutrients to help build better connections with the brain

In conclusion the impact sensory organs and motor skills have on child are its the
developing of a child early years which play a major role in their younger stages, sensory organs
normally work with the motor skills in a process called sensorimotor according to Piaget and
lastly sensory organs which also causes the brain to learn new things and allow the motor skills
to develop in a child. The Impact Sensory Organs and Motor Skills have on a child can
determine allot. Its the stage of development for any human. It can change their thoughts and
how they also play or interact with their environment. Its the developing of the child early years
how we become who we are as an induvial. We come immune to the environment and notice that
at an early age we play a major role on society. We start to connect with our environment in
different areas. Sensory organs connect with motor skills in process known as Sensorimotor
according to Piaget. The process comes with six substages in which he breaks down the

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developing of the child early on years. He also goes to explain were a child should at what age.
Last but not least the impact that sensory organs and motor skills allow the brain to learn new
things and allow the motor skills to take action. When the sensory organs begin to impact on the
motor skills the brain starts to develop new skills for adolescents. The skills they develop
become long term and help them throughout life. As I wrap it up ,Sensory organs is an a organ
that responds by conveying knowledge to the motor system and Motor skills are the skills you
impact such as walking, running, gasping and serval more. In older to develop as induvial your
sensory skills will impact your motor skills in order for you to adapt to the environment around
you.

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