This perspective article provides support for four interrelated tenets: 1) Grounded perceptual-motor experience within cultural and social contexts forms cognition; 2) Exploration via early behaviors such as object interaction, sitting, and locomotion broadly facilitates development; 3) Individuals with limited exploration are at risk for global developmental impairments; and 4) Early interventions targeting exploratory behaviors may be feasible and effective at advancing a range of abilities across developmental domains and time. Altogether, these tenets emphasize that by promoting early perceptual-motor behaviors, we can facilitate broader, more global developmental advancements and minimize future delays across domains for individuals with special needs. Researchers, educators, and clinicians should build on these tenets to further demonstrate the effectiveness of targeted early interventions. The goals of these interventions should not only be to advance targeted perceptual-motor skills in the moment but also to more broadly advance future abilities and meet early intervention’s goal of maximizing children’s learning potential.
Source: http://ptjournal.apta.org/cgi/content/short/ptj.20120158v1?rss=1
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