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Download full textGoldberger, Michael – 1980
A taxonomy of psychomotor skills provides a classification of all human movement forms. The development of motor skills in this hierarchy begins with the reflexive physical responses of the infant. The stages of growth include basic interactive movement forms, skilled movement forms, and functional and creative movement forms. This taxonomy offers…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Developmental Stages, Educational Objectives, Elementary Secondary 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
Churton, Michael W., Ed. – 1979
The manual presents results and findings of a statewide motor development inservice training project for teachers of exceptional children and provides training modules from the project. Section 1 gives an overview of the structure, philosophy, and procedures of the project. The evaluation plan of the program is described, and the development of…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education, Inservice Teacher Education
Pokorni, Judith, Comp.; Wujcik, Anne, Comp. – 1977
Developmental behaviors are listed for children from birth to 6 years for gross motor, fine motor, self help, expressive and receptive language, psycho/social, and cognitive skills. Skills are broken down into 6-month intervals for the first year, and 1-year intervals from age 1 to 6. (CL)
Descriptors: Child Development, Cognitive Development, Developmental Stages, Early Childhood Education
Iannicelli, Mary M.; McConnaughey, French B. – 1976
Described is a structured, team-teaching, developmental approach for use with multiply handicapped children between the ages of 3 and 7. The program is explained to be child-centered, to involve individualized work and small group lessons, and to use the unit approach. Task analysis and developmental sequencing of skills are performed for each of…
Descriptors: Auditory Perception, Aural Learning, Developmental Programs, Early Childhood Education
Keogh, Jack, Ed.; Hutton, Robert S., Ed. – 1976
EXERCISE AND SPORT SCIENCES REVIEWS is a journal, published once per year, in which reviews of research concerning biological, biomechanical, behavioral, and kinesiological aspects of human movement and performance are published. This book contains the following articles: (1) Organizational Processes in Motor Control, by A. M. Gentile and J.…
Descriptors: Athletics, Exercise (Physiology), Eye Hand Coordination, Kinesthetic Perception
Carbon - Lehigh Intermediate Unit, Schnecksville, PA. – 1978
The manual presents sequences of skills designed for use as guides to teaching/learning objectives and as a basis for evaluating and recording special education students' progress. It is explained that the goal of the first level of objectives (sequenced in this document) is to enable the student to function at a motor/psychomotor state of…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Communication Skills, Daily Living Skills, Developmental Stages
Ross, Sheila A. – 1967
In a study on improvement of basic motor skills by educable mentally retarded (EMR) children with special training in a sport and game situation, 21 EMR boys and 19 EMR girls (aged 4-1 to 10-1) were divided into an experimental and a control group, matched by chronological age, IQ, sex, and pretest scores on the Basic Skills Test (reliability .97)…
Descriptors: Childrens Games, Exceptional Child Research, Mental Retardation, Mild Mental Retardation
Best, 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
Hodges, Walter L.; And Others – 1967
This 3-year study investigated the effectiveness of a 1-year diagnostic preschool curriculum for improving the regular school adjustment and achievement of 142 five-year-old psychosocially disadvantaged Appalachian children. During each year approximately 15 children were placed into either an experimental preschool, a kindergarten contrast, or an…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adjustment (to Environment), Curriculum Development, Disadvantaged Youth
Morgan, Harry – 1977
The contention that among black people there is a cognitive style which seems to require a more active intervention with the learning environment than what is needed by their white counterpart is advanced in this discussion of cognitive style among black Africans and black Americans. Cognitive styles of blacks in the infant, early school, and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Black Mothers, Black Students, Black Youth
Winick, Albert B. – 1974
Tests of intelligence and structured measures of emotional status, aptitudes, and achievement alone do not suffice in predicting the vocational adjustment of the mentally retarded. Since the main concern is the evaluation of the many aspects of behavior which make the individual a unique and changing person, a format was developed which included a…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Adults, Clinical Diagnosis, Cognitive Tests
Caldwell, Erin Kent; And Others – 1974
Described is a 9-week, summer, competency-based, instructional program for teachers of deaf blind children. Information provided includes the background and rationale for the program, a list of administrative and instructional staff members, program goals, and a sample scheduling sequence. Goals, session topics, texts and materials, session…
Descriptors: Audiology, Competency Based Teacher Education, Curriculum, Deaf Blind
Indianapolis Council of Parent Cooperatives, IN. – 1975
The activities described in this guide have been collected in an effort to suggest an underlying philosophy for a language arts curriculum in nursery schools and to outline and suggest a variety of methods by which this philosophy can be put to use. Materials commonly found in the classroom, outside, and in the home, and well-known songs and games…
Descriptors: Attention Span, Creative Activities, Creative Expression, Curriculum Guides
Shireman, Joan F.; Johnson, Penny R. – 1973
This descriptive report covers the first phase of a 20-year longitudinal study of black children adopted under 3 years of age by black couples, white couples, and single persons. The sample of three groups of approximately equal size was selected from the adoptive placements of two private child welfare agencies between June 1970 and June 1972.…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Adopted Children, Adoption, Black Youth
