This document is designed to assist physical education teachers in addressing deficiencies found in Michigan students when they were tested on physical education performance objectives. The objectives included are: (1) locomotion--run, hop, skip; (2) body projection--horizontal and vertical jump; (3) rhythm--move to an even beat; (4) object…

This is a report of a New York City school district educational project funded under Title l of the Elementary and Secondary Act of 1965 which provided a supplementary reading and mathematics readiness program for early childhood CRMD pupils ranging in age from five to seven. The major goal of the program was to increase the levels of student…

A study was designed to determine the effects of various ball sizes on children's catching ability and to examine the results as a between- and within-group factor. It was believed that the use of the two-test design would help to establish the validity of past and future tests of this nature. The between-subjects design group consisted of 48…

Physical education programs at the nursery and elementary school levels should stress the development and refinement of fundamental movement patterns and a wide variety of sport skills instead of dealing with specialized skill development through refined performance experiences. The developmental model of physical education is based on the…

Intended for use with trainable retarded, moderately to profoundly multihandicapped students, and young mildly handicapped learners, the curriculum guide provides task objectives, task analyses, and exercise ideas for six categories: self help skills, language skills, motor development skills, basic academic skills, home living skills, and…

This longitudinal study examined the relationship of the physical-neurological conditions of infants at one minute after birth to mental and motor development at prekindergarten and kindergarten levels. Subjects were 44 children, 16 males and 28 females, born in 1970 in the same hospital. Neonatal physical status one minute after birth was…

This handbook presents a number of creative drama activities that may be used by teachers to motivate and enhance student development. Included are activities for sensory awareness; spatial awareness and body movement; verbalization; pantomime, rhythm, music and poetry; storybuilding and dramatization; and characterization and improvisation. Each…

Many children with learning problems have difficulties with perceptual development. This bulletin, reporting the preliminary findings of a Cooperative Curriculum Project funded under Title III, Elementary and Secondary Education Act, discusses Kephart's definition of sensory motor perception. It defines and suggests activities and materials…

Reviewed in the third of seven related documents are resources and research on physical education, recreation, and sports for hearing impaired persons. An annotated list of resources is supplied for each of the following topics: integration of the hearing impaired into regular physical education and recreation programs, physical education and…

Partial and methodologically questionable replications of the Luria experiments on the child's verbal regulation of his motor behavior have led to results and conclusions contradictory to Luria's findings. An error in the methodology of two of these replications is discussed as the reason for a new investigation of Luria's hypothesis. Several…

Information on infant growth and development from 9-12 months of age is presented in a self-instructional format. This illustrated booklet is part of a related curriculum on parenting and child development for school-age mothers. Infant emotional behavior, cognitive development, toilet training, walking and other motor skills, and perceptual…

This document presents two measures used by the Parent-Child Early Education Program of the Ferguson-Florrisant School District in Missouri for identifying preschool children with special behavior problems. The first measure, My Preschool Child, is a checklist to be filled out by the parent on the child's personal and social development, language…

This handbook of home preschool activities is designed to be used with the siblings of the children in Project Follow Through. The suggested activities are to be used by parents in the home to provide learning experiences for their young children and to reinforce concepts being taught in Project Follow Through. Most of the activities were adapted…

The author reviews research on the effects of motor remediation with the mentally retarded on the areas of motor ability, physical fitness, social and emotional competency, reading achievement, and intelligence. It is concluded that motor development theories have led to an increase of motor training programs for the mentally retarded, and that…

The Motor Inhibition Test, which measures "impulse control," requires the child to perform three motor acts. These acts are: walking a distance of six feet on a five-ince wide runway; drawing a line, using ruler and pencil, between two points 8-1/2 inches apart; and winding a toy jeep up to the rear of a toy two truck, a distance of 30…