Discuss the factors affecting Motor Development in Children?

The factors affecting motor development in children are:-

1. Heredity: Genes are the small structure of the body, which are responsible for various types of development of children. The working capacity of all organic systems is dependent on genes. The no. of factors, which are transferred from parents to children are :
   1. Muscle fibres
   2. Length of fibres
   3. Working capacity of the Cardio-vascular system
   4. Bony structure
   5. Inherent chronical diseases
   6. Gender
2. Environment: Encouragement, love & security helps the children to take the risk to explore fearlessly and to know more about their surroundings, which leads to a better sensory development. a healthy environment and inter-personal relationship lead to the good personality of the child.
3. Nutritious food promotes good motor development. Sensory and motor development depends on nutrition that the child gets to a great extent. Balanced nutritious food helps to develop stronger and healthier children.
4. Opportunity for children:- Opportunity to play or gain knowledge give a better chance of developing sensory motor activities. Children get more opportunity to develop agility, balance, coordination, flexibility, strength and speed.
5. Postural Deformities:- Postural deformities may be caused due to some disease, accident or by birth. Children suffering from deformities of posture encounter hinderance in performing normal activity, therefore their motor development is impacted negatively.
6. Sensory Impairment:- Sensory impairment means senses like hearing, sight, speech etc. not functioning properly. Motor development is affected in children suffering from sensory impairment. For example. A child not able to hear faces difficulty to understand and follow instructions, which cause hamper motor development.
7. Obesity:- Excessively overweight and obese children find it difficult to move properly or perform certain finer movements of the body. They become slow and sluggish in movement. Therefore obesity has a negative impact on motor development in children.