Typical and atypical motor development / by David Sugden and Michael Wade ; [editor, Hilary M. Hart].

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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 Developmental Change. 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 to 24 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 to 7 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 temporal demands ; Modelling mover and environmental conditions ; Spatial accuracy ; Temporal and spatial accuracy ; Development of maximal performance : Normative comparisons ; 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 coordination disorder ; 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 Other Developmental 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 Children with Movement Difficulties. Assessment and intervention ; Purposes of assessment ; The field of intervention ; Principles underlying types of assessment and intervention ; Validity and reliability ; Intervention is about participation and learning ; Ecological approaches to assessment and intervention ; Approaches to assessment and collection of information ; Process deficit and functional task-orientated approaches to intervention ; Interventions for cerebral palsy ; Summary -- 13. Perspectives on Typical and Atypical Development. The 'what' and the 'how' of motor development ; Consistency and constancy ; Environmental influence ; How does development progress? ; Embodied cognition ; The typical-atypical continuum -- Index.

Sugden and Wade, leading authors in this area, comprehensively cover motor development and motor impairment, drawing on sources in medicine and health-related studies, motor learning and developmental psychology. A theme that runs through the book is that movement outcomes are a complex transaction of child resources, the context in which movement takes place, and the manner in which tasks are presented. The core themes of the book involve descriptions of motor development from conception through to emerging adulthood, explanations of motor development from differing theoretical, empirical, and experiential perspectives, and descriptions and explanations of atypical motor development when the resources of the child are limited in some way. Readership : Occupational therapists, physiotherapists, paediatricians, teachers (physical education, early childhood development, elementary education), educational psychologists, kinesiology and sports scientists. - Publisher.

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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