My 3 years old was diagnosed Global Development Delay when he was 2 years old and 7 months and the Dr. Herrin, a Development Pediatrician, advised him to have early intervention.
After 3 months of intervention, the therapist in the center told me that my son have motor planning difficulty since he is not able to do something with himself. He always hold my hand to get what he wants or to do something he wants.
I decided to research about motor planning and found out that motor planning is the ability to plan and carry out skilled non-habitual motor act in the correct sequence from beginning to end. According to North Shore Pediatric Therapy, the ability to motor plan is a learned ability which is generalized to all unfamiliar tasks so a child does not need to consciously figure out each new task he or she faces. The child with motor planning difficulties may be slow in carrying out verbal instructions and often appears clumsy in new tasks.
The causes of motor planning difficulties is the problems processing sensory information and poor neural connection in the brain. An individual should be able to organize sensory input from his body and have adequate body percept and be able to move around his environment in order to have efficient motor planning.
The therapist in the center also told me that they will give activities to improve motor planning of my son. They will use multisensory approach to give sensory and motor experiences to improve the responses to sensory input, body awareness and find and gross motor skills