Find out about the parameters of a gait cycle like cadence, stride length, and base of support. Then measure and calculate your own using the oldest and simplest method of getting a workable sample: dipping your feet into paint and leaving footprints on a strip of paper.

Learn about the milestones that developing babies and toddlers are typically expected to achieve in the realms of receptive and expressive language, fine and gross motor stages, feeding, social-emotional behavior, problem solving and sensory integration. Why is it important that babies stick their feet in their mouths? Can you tell if newborns are going to be typically developing? Why do toddlers make up words that we can understand, anyway? Learn these answers and more. Better yet, bring your own questions!

A brief overview of how we humans stay upright and balanced from a physical therapy point of view. Learn about the three main systems we use to perceive our position in space, a few principles behind our ability to stay upright, and the reflexive strategies we utilize to keep ourselves that way when faced with a challenge.

A brief taste of human locomotion; from the way individual joints work to the gait cycle.