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Meeting Learning Challenges: Working with Children Who Have Motor Difficulties
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Greenspan, Stanley I. – Early Childhood Today, 2005
Problems with large-motor coordination is motor planning and sequencing. This is the ability to carry out actions that require five or six steps. For example, many children can take off their coats, hang them in their cubbies, walk back to a table, sit at the table, and get ready for an activity. A child with coordination problems is likely to…
Descriptors: Young Children, Psychomotor Skills, Classroom Techniques, Early Childhood Education
A New Perspective on Motor Skill Automation.
Stelmach, George E.; Larish, Douglas D. – Research Quarterly, 1980
Research findings concerning attention, automation, and movement are reviewed. Research in the future should be concerned with the relationship between environmental context and action. (CJ)
Descriptors: Attention Span, Automation, Educational Research, Motor Development
Cognitive-Motor Relationships in the Growing Years.
Rarick, G. Lawrence – Research Quarterly, 1980
The impact of movement experiences on cognitive functions and academic achievement on students, in particular the learning-disabled, is described. Cognitive processes involved in the acquisition of motor skills and intellectual abilities are detailed. (CJ)
Descriptors: Child Development, Elementary Secondary Education, Intellectual Development, Motor Development
Perceptual-Motor Performance and the Social Development of Visually Impaired Children.
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Sleeuwenhoek, H. C.; And Others – Journal of Visual Impairment & Blindness, 1995
This article presents a literature survey and conceptual model of the perceptual-motor performance of children with visual impairment, in relation to their social development. The relationships between visual impairment and orientation, visual impairment and mobility, and motor performance and social integration are examined. (Author/SW)
Descriptors: Models, Motor Development, Orientation, Perceptual Development
Children with Movement Difficulties: Primary Education and the Development of Performance Indicators.
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Stafford, Ian – British Journal of Special Education, 2000
This article discusses primary education in Britain and the development of performance indicators for children with movement difficulties. It focuses on children's central movement difficulties as a factor in their total development and calls for early assessment and regular monitoring. (Contains references.) (DB)
Descriptors: Child Development, Evaluation Methods, Motor Development, Perceptual Motor Coordination
Motor Development: A New Synthesis.
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Thelen, Esther – American Psychologist, 1995
Discusses the renaissance of motor skill acquisition studies that are affording new insights into the processes by which infants and children learn to control their bodies. The article explains how studies are now focusing less on how children perform and more on how the components cooperate to produce stability or engender change, thus making…
Descriptors: Biomechanics, Child Behavior, Child Development, Learning Processes
Challenge Me to Move: Large Muscle Development in Young Children.
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Poest, Catherine A.; And Others – Young Children, 1990
Discusses the importance of a well-defined program for motor development in early childhood education. Presents suggestions for implementing a program that involves movement skills, physical fitness, and perceptual-motor development. (PCB)
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Educational Equipment, Motor Development, Movement Education
Perceptual-Motor Programs Do Not Facilitate Development: Why Not Play?
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Corrie, Loraine; Barratt-Pugh, Caroline – Australian Journal of Early Childhood, 1997
Early childhood perceptual-motor programs as preventive and remedial measures present three concerns: (1) they have minimal positive effects; (2) funds could be used to investigate more effective educational strategies; and (3) the rationale for these programs does not fit with the Australian Early Childhood Association's Code of Ethics. Play is…
Descriptors: Childhood Needs, Codes of Ethics, Early Childhood Education, Foreign Countries