7 FUNDAMENTAL PHYSICAL READINESS SKILLS

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• BALANCE - Balance is the ability to move your body under control.

• GENERAL COORDINATION - General coordination is the ability to coordinate movement.

General coordination follows balance closely. Many of the same problems which occur in balance are exhibited in general coordination. A major difference between balance and general coordination is that general coordination takes balance and combines several aspects of it at the same time. For instance, a child may know how to run without falling, but she may not be using her arms properly while she is running. She may be looked at as being clumsy. She may trip alot without any reason for tripping. She may have trouble writing on the chalkboard. When learning requires her to learn something in order (such as learning the alphabet), she may have trouble remembering the order.

• BODY IMAGE - Body image is the ability to understand one's own body and its relationship to other things.
  
  
• HAND-EYE COORDINATION - Hand-eye coordination is being able to use your hands and your eyes effectively at the same time.

• LATERALITY - Laterality is knowing my left from right, top from bottom, and front from back.

• TACTILE TOUCH - Tactile touch is the ability to feel objects as they are meant to be felt.

• AUDIO RECEPTIVE / AUDIO EXPRESSIVE LANGUAGE - Audio receptive / audio expressive language is the ability to hear and distinguish the basic sounds in a given language and to express those sounds in a distinguishable manner.