Foundations for all core skills

These foundations, built from birth, underpin the core skills.

Foundation skills

Babies

  • Integration of postural reflexes

  • Development of postural reflexes

  • Development of all seven senses and sensory integration

  • Control of the large and small muscles of the body

  • Breaking down /crossing the midline barrier (beginning at 2yrs)

  • The development of laterality (sidedness)

  • Bilateral integration (the ability to use both sides of the body together)

Activities

See what activities can help to support this core skill.

See Activities

Early movers is a collaborative project between Loughborough University, the NCSEM and Loughborough campus nursery. Our work has been supported with Loughborough University Enterprise Funding through the Higher Education Innovation Fund (HEIF).