Climbing enhances body awareness, body scheme, motor planning and bilateral coordination. The child's body weight, combined with gravity, provides additional proprioceptive feedback to his joints, helping the child coordinate his movements while working toward increasingly complex motor planning events. Arm and leg coordination (bilateral coordination) is enhanced as he climbs up the ladder or rock wall and across the monkey bars, propels the scooter board or pulls himself up the scooter board ramp.
