Don children have to learn to crawl before they can learn to walk?
It would be wonderful if all children were able to learn to sit, stand, and walk by going through the sequence of developmental skills typical of most infants; but obviously, it doesn’t always work. Surveys conducted at the Blair Learning Center, birthplace of MOVE, showed that students with severe disabilities either did very well learning to move independently or they became vegetative. There were very few students who improved their motor skills once they were past the age of seven and all but one of the students regressed if they could not perform the skills independently. Snell 1987, suggests that some teachers, especially those who are new to the field of special education, fail to select meaningful instructional goals for students with severe disabilities because the teachers are following the tenets of most developmental assessment devices. These assessments suggest that the first skills to be taught are the ones the student has failed on the list of skills normally performed b
