The infant psychomotor

In the child's action is articulated all his emotions, desires and possibilities of communication
   The concept of motor skills is not clearly defined since gradually include more activities and is spreading to new areas. At first it was a set of exercises used to correct a weakness, difficulty or disability. But today, figures prominently in early childhood education, especially in early childhood, as there is a strong interdependence between the motor development, the emotional and intellectual.

Psychomotor is the action of central nervous system, which creates an awareness in the human being on the moves made through the motor patterns such as speed, space and time.

Movement and mental activity The term psychomotor is divided into two parts: the motor and psyche, which is the process of developing the whole person. The word refers to the movement driving while psycho psychic activity determined in two phases: the socio-affective and cognitive. In other words, the actions of children is built all his emotions and desires, but also all its possibilities for communication and conceptualization.
Piaget's theory states that intelligence is built on motor activity of children. In the first years of life to seven years or so, the child's education is psychomotor. All, knowledge and learning, focuses on the child's action on the environment and the experiences of others through their action and movement.

Principles and goals of the childhood psychomotor Psychomotor, and stimulation to the child's movements, has the ultimate goal - Encourage the sensitive capacity through the feelings and relationships between the body and the outside (the other and things). - To cultivate the perceptive capacity through knowledge of the movements and body response. - Organize the ability of the movements represented or expressed through signs, symbols, drawings, and the use of real and imaginary objects. - Enable children to discover and express their skills through creative action and expression of emotion. - Expand and evaluate the identity and self-esteem within the plurality group. - Create safe to express themselves through various forms as a valuable, unique and unrepeatable.

Stimulation and rehabilitation Through the psychomotor can stimulate and retrain the child's movements. Psychomotor stimulation educational targets healthy individuals, through a work-oriented motor activity and play, while the psychomotor rehabilitation working with individuals with disabilities, disorders or delays in their development and are treated by bodily clinical intervention by specialist staff.