Typical and Atypical Motor Development
Published on 8. April 2013
396 pages
978-1-908316-56-1 (ISBN)
Description
Explains movement, or motor development, from differing theoretical, empirical, and experiential perspectives, and discusses atypical motor development when the resources of the child are limited in some way.
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David Sugden | Michael Wade
Typical and Atypical Motor Development
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04/2013
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Mac Keith Press
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Content
- Intro
- Contents
- Foreword
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- About the authors
- 1 An Introduction to Motor Development
- Introduction
- Development
- Descriptions of change
- Motor development
- What is motor development?
- What does change look like?
- Characteristics and descriptions of movement
- Performance and learning, ability and skill
- Consequences of movement
- Movement by design
- The descriptive period
- Systems-orientated period
- Movement that informs
- Embodied cognition
- Developing adaptable motor control
- Summary
- 2 Biological Influences on DevelopmentalChange
- Selected anthropometric structural changes
- Physiological, neural, and sensory functional changes
- Influences on motor development
- Summary
- 3 Developmental Models and Theories
- Motor control and development theories
- What constitutes processing?
- Traditional information processing
- Information processing and motor development
- Summary
- 4 Early Movement Development: Birth to24 Months
- Introduction
- Movement activity in utero and at birth
- Development of vision and visual perception
- Locomotion
- Manual control
- Prospective control
- Summary
- 5 Motor Development of Young Children: 2 to7 Years of Age
- Descriptions of change
- Body control
- Manual control
- Control of limb movements
- Summary
- 6 Movement Development of Young Children:7 Years to Puberty
- A specific task illustrating spatial and temporaldemands
- Modelling mover and environmental conditions
- Spatial accuracy
- Temporal and spatial accuracy
- Development of maximal performance: normativecomparisons
- Movement abilities
- Summary
- 7 Cerebral Palsy
- Cerebral palsy: the condition
- Cerebral palsy and movement control
- Summary
- 8 Developmental Coordination Disorder
- Development of movement skill competence
- Historical context
- Terminology
- Who are the children?
- Diagnostic criteria for developmental coordinationdisorder
- Co-occurring characteristics
- Developmental progression
- Core motor characteristics of children with DCD
- Underlying biological substrates
- Constraints: perceptual, cognitive, and motor
- Summary
- 9 Children with Intellectual Disability
- General descriptions
- Constraints on control and coordination
- Summary and future directions
- 10 Motor Development in Children with OtherDevelopmental Disorders
- Introduction to developmental disorders
- Individual developmental disorders
- Summary
- 11 Children with Visual Impairment
- Role and nature of vision
- Movement development in blind children
- Summary
- 12 Assessment and Intervention for Childrenwith Movement Difficulties
- Assessment and intervention
- Purposes of assessment
- The field of intervention
- Principles underlying types of assessment andintervention
- Validity and reliability
- Intervention is about participation and learning
- Ecological approaches to assessment andintervention
- Approaches to assessment and collection ofinformation
- Process deficit and functional task-orientatedapproaches to intervention
- Interventions for cerebral palsy
- Summary
- 13 Perspectives on Typical and AtypicalDevelopment
- The 'what' and the 'how' of motor development
- Consistency and constancy
- Environmental influence
- How does development progress?
- Embodied cognition
- The typical-atypical continuum
- Index
