NotesFAQContact Us
Collection
Advanced
Search Tips
Education Level
Elementary Education2
Audience
Practitioners1
Laws, Policies, & Programs
Assessments and Surveys
Bayley Scales of Infant…1
What Works Clearinghouse Rating
Does not meet standards1
Showing 1 to 15 of 24 results Save | Export
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Emily Fourie; Szu-Ching Lu; Jonathan Delafield-Butt; Susan M. Rivera – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2025
Autistic individuals often exhibit motor atypicalities, which may relate to difficulties in social communication. This study utilized a smart tablet activity to computationally characterize motor control by testing adherence to the two-thirds power law (2/3 PL), which captures a systematic covariation between velocity and curvature in motor…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Elementary School Students, Autism Spectrum Disorders, Psychomotor Skills
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Jang, Yujin; Hong, Yea-Ji – Early Child Development and Care, 2022
This study examined two subfactors of fundamental movement skills: locomotion skills and object-control skills. The direct and indirect effects of children's temperament on fundamental movement skills and the mediating effects of autonomy and self-regulation were examined. Participants included 278 pairs of 3- to 5-year-old children and their…
Descriptors: Personality Traits, Metacognition, Preschool Children, Child Development
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Serrien, Deborah J.; O'Regan, Louise – European Journal of Developmental Psychology, 2021
Fine motor skills develop in childhood. In this study, we evaluate motor planning in 6- to 11-year-old children using a pegboard and midline crossing task. The results of the pegboard task showed that children modified their strategies of hand use and space use as a function of age, albeit with a transition in the 8- to 9-year-old children. The…
Descriptors: Child Development, Motor Development, Psychomotor Skills, Brain Hemisphere Functions
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Wu, Jiamin; Chan, John S. Y.; Yan, Jin H. – Developmental Science, 2019
We examined the developmental differences in motor control and learning of a two-segment movement. One hundred and five participants (53 female) were divided into three age groups (7-8 years, 9-10 years and 19-27 years). They performed a two-segment movement task in four conditions (full vision, fully disturbed vision, disturbed vision in the…
Descriptors: Motor Development, Elementary School Students, Task Analysis, Accuracy
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Stulp, Freek; Oudeyer, Pierre-Yves – Developmental Science, 2018
To harness the complexity of their high-dimensional bodies during sensorimotor development, infants are guided by patterns of freezing and freeing of degrees of freedom. For instance, when learning to reach, infants free the degrees of freedom in their arm proximodistally, that is, from joints that are closer to the body to those that are more…
Descriptors: Motor Development, Comparative Analysis, Human Body, Perceptual Motor Learning
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
D'Souza, Hana; Cowie, Dorothy; Karmiloff-Smith, Annette; Bremner, Andrew J. – Developmental Science, 2017
In executing purposeful actions, adults select sufficient and necessary limbs. But infants often move goal-irrelevant limbs, suggesting a developmental process of motor specialization. Two experiments with 9- and 12-month-olds revealed gradual decreases in extraneous movements in non-acting limbs during unimanual actions. In Experiment 1,…
Descriptors: Infants, Motor Reactions, Child Development, Individual Differences
Harbourne, Regina T.; Dusing, Stacey C.; Lobo, Michele A.; Westcott-McCoy, Sarah; Bovaird, James; Sheridan, Susan; Galloway, James C.; Chang, Hui-Ju; Hsu, Lin-Ya; Koziol, Natalie; Marcinowski, Emily C.; Babik, Iryna – Grantee Submission, 2018
Background: There is limited research examining the efficacy of early physical therapy on infants with neuromotor dysfunction. In addition, most early motor interventions have not been directly linked to learning, despite the clear association between motor activity and cognition during infancy. Objective: The aim of this project is to evaluate…
Descriptors: Intervention, Infants, Psychomotor Skills, Physical Therapy
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Iverson, Jana M.; Hall, Amanda J.; Nickel, Lindsay; Wozniak, Robert H. – Brain and Language, 2007
This study examined changes in rhythmic arm shaking and laterality biases in infants observed longitudinally at three points: just prior to, at, and just following reduplicated babble onset. Infants (ranging in age from 4 to 9 months at babble onset) were videotaped at home as they played with two visually identical audible and silent rattles…
Descriptors: Infants, Longitudinal Studies, Visual Aids, Motor Development
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
MacBain, K. Patricia; Hill, Robert H. – American Journal of Occupational Therapy, 1973
Tests run with children to detect musculoskeletal deficits, especially rheumatoid arthritis. (JA)
Descriptors: Child Development, Motor Development, Motor Reactions, Occupational Therapy
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Grattan, Mary P.; And Others – Child Development, 1992
Examined asymmetries in movement behaviors of 36 full-term, newborn infants. The majority of infants had right-biased movement behaviors. Multiple subsystems, rather than a single asymmetric system, appeared to control asymmetric action of different body regions. There were sex differences in asymmetry of distal lower body movement behaviors that…
Descriptors: Child Development, Motion, Motor Development, Motor Reactions
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Thelen, Esther – Developmental Psychology, 1989
Discusses general developmental principles which have emerged from studies in motor development. (RJC)
Descriptors: Child Development, Infant Behavior, Literature Reviews, Motor Development
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Bertenthal, Bennett I.; Bai, Dina L. – Developmental Psychology, 1989
Results of a study of 68 infants of 5-14 months revealed that partial optical flow is generally sufficient for inducing postural compensations, but the amplitude and consistency of the response depend on the location of the flow in the optic array. (RJC)
Descriptors: Child Development, Human Posture, Infants, Motor Development
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Hunt, Lauren; Lewis, Danielle; Reisel, Sharon; Waldrup, Lanae; Wooster, Donna M. Adam – Infant-Toddler Intervention: The Transdisciplinary Journal, 2000
A study of 28 infants (ages 8-12 months) investigated their ability to drink from a straw. Results indicate 22 percent were not able to drink from a straw, whereas 78 percent were able to do so. Data failed to reveal any significant differences based on gender, age, or ethnicity. (Contains nine references.) (Author/CR)
Descriptors: Child Development, Developmental Delays, Developmental Stages, Drinking
Rarick, G. Lawrence; Dobbins, D. Alan – 1974
A motor performance typology of boys and girls (ages 6-10 years) was developed, based on four factors extracted by factor analysis from data on 47 physical growth and motor performance variables. Nineteen variables which best described the four factor-defined components were used in formulating the person-clusters (typologies) following Tryon's…
Descriptors: Child Development, Children, Classification, Cluster Grouping
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Thomassen, Arnold J. W. M.; Teulings, Hans-Leo H. M. – Visible Language, 1979
The developing directional preferences in writing and drawing that were observed in subjects between four years of age and adulthood suggest that two semiindependent motor systems are involved in writing: one for rapid and nonfigurative tasks, the other--which occurs later--for precision and symbolic functions. (Author/GT)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Child Development, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes
Previous Page | Next Page »
Pages: 1  |  2