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ASK PINNACLE · QUESTIONS, EXPLANATIONS & NEXT STEPS

Jumping Skills

Explore explanations, everyday questions and next steps connected with jumping skills.

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Therapy & support

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What therapy helps a child learn to jump?

Jumping is a gross motor skill best supported through physiotherapy and play-based movement therapy that builds leg strength, balance, body awareness and two-footed coordination, with parent and teacher coaching for daily practice. AbilityScore® is part of Pinnacle’s developmental assessment. Diagnosis, where needed, requires an appropriately qualified healthcare professional.

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At home

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Helping Your Child Practise Jumping at Home

Help your child practise jumping by weaving it gently into daily play — bunny hops, jumping off a low step into your hands, hopping over a floor line — with lots of modelling and praise. Two-feet jumping typically emerges between two and three years, and joyful repetition builds the leg strength, balance and body awareness behind it.

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How can I help my child learn jumping skills at home?

Help your child learn to jump at home with short, playful daily practice — bounce holding hands, step down from a low step, then jump over a line or into hoops. Most children jump with both feet by 2–3 years and grow stronger through 3–7. Keep it joyful and brief, and seek an occupational-therapy check if jumping stays very hard past age three.

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One Everyday Therapy activity to help with jumping skills

Try 'lily-pad jumping' — hop with both feet from one cushion or chalk circle to the next. It playfully builds the leg strength, balance and two-footed take-off and landing that jumping needs, in just a few cheerful minutes a day.

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