Typical and Atypical Motor Development
By: by David Sugden and Michael Wade ; editor, Hilary M. Hart
Series: Clinics in developmental medicine
Publisher: Mac Keith Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Format: E-book
ISBN-13: 9781908316561
Table of contents: title: Foreword; title: Preface; title: Acknowledgements; title: About the authors; title: 1. An Introduction to Motor Development.; title: Introduction; title: Development; title: Descriptions of change; title: Motor development; title: What is motor development?; title: What does change look like?; title: Characteristics and descriptions of movement; title: Performance and learning, ability and skill; title: Consequences of movement; title: Movement by design; title: The descriptive period; title: Systems-orientated period; title: Movement that informs; title: Embodied cognition; title: Developing adaptable motor control; title: Summary; title: 2. Biological Influences on Developmental Change.; title: Selected anthropometric structural changes; title: Physiological, neural, and sensory functional changes; title: Influences on motor development; title: Summary; title: 3. Developmental Models and Theories.; title: Motor control and development theories; title: What constitutes processing?; title: Traditional information processing; title: Information processing and motor development; title: Summary; title: 4. Early Movement Development: Birth to 24 Months.; title: Introduction; title: Movement activity in utero and at birth; title: Development of vision and visual perception; title: Locomotion; title: Manual control; title: Prospective control; title: Summary; title: 5. Motor Development of Young Children: 2 to 7 Years of Age.; title: Descriptions of change; title: Body control; title: Manual control of limb movements; title: Summary; title: 6. Movement Development of Young Children: 7 Years to Puberty.; title: A specific task illustrating spatial and temporal demands; title: Modelling mover and environmental conditions; title: Spatial accuracy; title: Temporal and spatial accuracy; title: Development of maximal performance: normative comparisons; title: Movement abilities; title: Summary; title: 7 Cerebral Palsy.; title: Cerebral palsy: the condition; title: Cerebral palsy and movement control; title: Summary; title: 8. Developmental Coordination Disorder.; title: Development of movement skill competence; title: Historical context; title: Terminology; title: Who are the children?; title: Diagnostic criteria for developmental coordination disorder Co-occurring characteristics; title: Developmental progression; title: Core motor characteristics of children with DCD; title: Underlying biological substrates; title: Constraints: perceptual, cognitive, and motor; title: Summary; title: 9. Children with Intellectual Disability.; title: General descriptions; title: Constraints on control and coordination; title: Summary and future directions; title: 10. Motor Development in Children with Other Developmental Disorders.; title: Introduction to developmental disorders; title: Individual developmental disorders; title: Summary; title: 11. Children with Visual Impairment.; title: Role and nature of vision; title: Movement development in blind children; title: Summary; title: 12. Assessment and Intervention for Children with Movement Difficulties.; title: Assessment and intervention; title: Purposes of assessment; title: The field of intervention; title: Principles underlying types of assessment and intervention; title: Validity and reliability; title: Intervention is about participation and learning; title: Ecological approaches to assessment and intervention; title: Approaches to assessment and collection of information; title: Process deficit and functional task-oriented approaches to intervention; title: Interventions for cerebral palsy; title: Summary