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Elna van der Merwe; Catelen Briedenhann; Bianka Reyneke – South African Journal of Childhood Education, 2023
Background: Perceptual motor development is crucial during early childhood and not properly addressing it in physical education (PE) can be detrimental. Aim: To determine the effect of a South African curriculum-aligned PE intervention on the visual-motor integration (VMI), visual perception (VP) and motor coordination (MC) of 6-year-old children.…
Descriptors: Children, Psychomotor Skills, Motor Development, Foreign Countries
Newmeister, Gayla Hansen – Research Quarterly, 1977
A visually directed sensory motor training program with a 30-day duration did not enhance the depth perception of five-year-old children. (MM)
Descriptors: Children, Depth Perception, Motor Development, Perceptual Motor Learning
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Rejto, Alice – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 1973
Descriptors: Children, Diagnostic Tests, Exceptional Child Research, Learning Disabilities
Gallahue, David L. – 1983
Perceptual-motor functioning is a cyclic process involving: (1) organizing incoming sensory stimuli with past or stored perceptual information; (2) making motor (internal) decisions based on the combination of sensory (present) and perceptual (past) information; (3) executing the actual movement (observable act) itself; and (4) evaluating the act…
Descriptors: Children, Elementary Education, Motor Development, Movement Education
Cratty, Bryant J. – 1979
Motor behavior, motor performance, and motor learning are discussed at length within the context of infant and child development. Individual chapters focus on the following: the sensory-motor behavior of infants; analysis of selected perceptual-motor programs; beginnings of movement in infants; gross motor attributes in early childhood; visual…
Descriptors: Athletics, Body Image, Child Development, Children
Hall, Arnita Rena – Online Submission, 2007
The purpose of this literature review is to look at brain research and its effect on educational practice. For the last several years, educators, parents and policymakers have become increasingly interested in the potential role of positive early childhood experiences in promoting a child's emotional and intellectual well-being (Ellison, 2001).…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Children, Brain, Multiple Intelligences
BARSCH, RAY H. – 1967
THE FIRST OF A 3-VOLUME PERCEPTUAL MOTOR CURRICULUM, THE BOOK DESCRIBES A PROGRAM BASED ON A THEORY OF MOVEMENT WHICH THE AUTHOR LABELS MOVIGENICS (THE STUDY OF THE ORIGIN AND DEVELOPMENT OF PATTERNS OF MOVEMENT IN MAN AND THE RELATIONSHIP OF THESE MOVEMENTS TO HIS LEARNING EFFICIENCY). TEN BASIC CONSTRUCTS OF MOVIGENICS ARE OUTLINED, AND THE…
Descriptors: Auditory Perception, Children, Curriculum, Exceptional Child Education