Editing Motor skill (section)

==Types of motor skills==
Motor skills are movements and actions of the muscles. There are two major groups of motor skills:
* [[Gross motor skill]]s<ref>{{cite web|url=http://ehlt.flinders.edu.au/education/DLiT/2000/FINAL/grossmotors.htm|title=Gross Motor Skills}}</ref> – require the use of large muscle groups in our legs, torso, and arms to perform tasks such as: walking, balancing, and crawling. The skill required is not extensive and therefore are usually associated with continuous tasks. Much of the development of these skills occurs during early childhood. We use our gross motor skills on a daily basis without putting much thought or effort  into them. The performance level of gross motor skill remains unchanged after periods of non-use.<ref name="Stallings">{{cite book |author=Stallings, Loretta M. |title=Motor Skills: Development and Learning |publisher=WCB/McGraw-Hill |location=Boston |year=1973 |isbn=0-697-07263-0 }}</ref> Gross motor skills can be further divided into two subgroups: Locomotor skills, such as running, jumping, sliding, and swimming; and object-control skills such as throwing, catching, dribbling, and kicking.
* [[Fine motor skill]]s – require the use of smaller muscle groups to perform smaller movements. These muscles include those found in our wrists, hands, fingers, feet and in our toes. These tasks are precise in nature like: playing the piano, tying shoelaces, brushing your teeth, and flossing. Some fine motor skills may be susceptible to retention loss of over a period of time if not in use. The phrase "if you don't use it, you lose it" is a perfect way to describe these skills, they need to be continuously used. Discrete tasks such as switching gears in an automobile, grasping an object, or striking a match, usually require more fine motor skill than gross motor skills.<ref name="Stallings"/>
Both gross and fine motor skills can become weakened or damaged. Some reasons for these impairments could be caused by an injury, illness, [[stroke]], congenital deformities (an abnormal change in the size or shape of a body part at birth),<ref>{{Cite web|title=A to Z: Deformity, Congenital (for Parents) - Norton Children's|url=https://www.kidshealth.org/NortonChildrens/en/parents/az-deformity-congenital.html?WT.ac=m-p-ra|access-date=2021-11-03|website=www.kidshealth.org}}</ref> [[cerebral palsy]], and developmental disabilities. Problems with the brain, spinal cord, peripheral nerves, muscles, or joints can also have an effect on these motor skills, and decrease control over them.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.healthofchildren.com/E-F/Fine-Motor-Skills.html.|title=Fine Motor Skills - symptoms, Definition, Description, Common problems|website=www.healthofchildren.com}}</ref>