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Jani, Subhash N. – Academic Therapy, 1983
Resistance applied to activities of rocking, creeping, and walking as a means to increase visual attention of students who are easily distracted is described. The resistance activities are said to result in improvement of gross motor coordination, oculomotor control, memory processes, and untimately, greater efficiency in academic learning. (CL)
Descriptors: Attention, Learning Disabilities, Perceptual Motor Learning, Physical Activities
Och, Mary F. – Academic Therapy, 1973
Discussed is use of the trampoline to remediate perceptual handicaps in learning disabled children. (DB)
Descriptors: Exceptional Child Education, Learning Disabilities, Perceptual Development, Perceptual Handicaps
Simpson, Marian – 1977
The manual is designed to provide the physical education teacher or the kindergarten teacher with an orderly sequence of experiences for promoting growth in body awareness, dynamic balance, muscular strength, spatial awareness, and temporal awareness in the 5- and 6-year-old learning disabled child. The 33 weeks of lesson plans are designed for…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Learning Disabilities, Lesson Plans, Motor Development
Fait, Hollis F. – 1978
A basic text on physical education for the handicapped, this edition is divided into four major sections containing detailed discussion of the general topic area under consideration. The first section presents basic information about historical background, general patterns of growth and development, the nature of motor learning, and the psychology…
Descriptors: Athletics, Learning Disabilities, Lifetime Sports, Mainstreaming
Download full textBest, Helen; And Others – 1967
Students in 24 perceptual development classes for the minimally brain injured were studied to determine the effect of structured physical activity on motor skill development, to compare this effect with the effect of unstructured activity, and to determine the effect of an increased amount of time of physical activity. The Johnson Test of Motor…
Descriptors: Children, Exceptional Child Research, Learning Disabilities, Minimal Brain Dysfunction
Wayne - Carroll Public Schools, Wayne, NE. – 1974
Presented is a curriculum guide for a perceptual motor program which was developed by Project Success (Nebraska) through a Title III grant for language learning disabled elementary level students in kindergarten through grade 3. The program is said to be arranged in a hierarchy of skills ranging from simple to complex and to be written so that the…
Descriptors: Body Image, Curriculum Guides, Exceptional Child Education, Kindergarten
VALETT, ROBERT E. – 1967
INTENDED FOR SPECIAL EDUCATION TEACHERS, REMEDIAL SPECIALISTS, AND PSYCHOLOGISTS, THE HANDBOOK PRESENTS A SERIES OF CONCRETE ACTIVITIES AND EXERCISES FOR CHILDREN WITH LEARNING DISABILITIES. FIFTY-THREE BASIC LEARNING ABILITIES OR RESOURCE PROGRAMS ARE GROUPED UNDER SIX MAJOR AREAS--GROSS MOTOR DEVELOPMENT, SENSORY MOTOR INTEGRATION, PERCEPTUAL…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Concept Formation, Curriculum, Curriculum Guides
