Developmental Gym for Infants and Toddlers

Training movement abilities from birth to walking 

Tips and instructions, with video clips, for training exercises and activities

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What is included?

Tracking progress PDF booklets 
Track your infants progress in  lying, sitting, crawling, standing, cruising and walking. 

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GAMES for Social Interaction

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Activities for promoting hand actions 

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Active stretching exercises

Instructions for easy-to-implement exercises to improve flexibility. 

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Learning to sit

Exercises and activities to train sitting and get your infant active in sitting. 

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From tummy lying to crawling and clambering 

Exercises and activities to get your infant up onto all fours, crawling and clambering 

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Pull-to-stand, standing balance, cruising and walking

Exercises and activities to get your infant into standing, improve balance, take first steps, stand alone and walk independently

    


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Improving toddler leg muscle strength balance, and agility

Toddlers who have developmental delay, are hypermobile or have low muscle tone and those with coordination difficulties often need extra help to ensure that they master all the gross motor skills  Example: Training Instructions: Stepping Up

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Read more: Toddler Gross Motor Checklist

Lifting, carrying, throwing and catching games 

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Social games to encourage communication and development of visual attention 

Taking time to play imitation, communication, anticipation games with your toddler is very important for the development of visual attention as well as sustained attention, turn taking and the ability to manage high levels of excitement. 

 BONUS  Toddler Gross Motor Tasks Checklist: a 19 page PDF download 

Identify Goals and Monitor Progress:   

The Toddler Gross Motor Tasks Checklist is a list of all the basic motor tasks a toddler should master by the age of 2-3 years.

Each task is briefly described, goals are identified and space is provided for recording progress towards achieving each goal. 

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