Typical and Atypical Motor Development

David A. Sugden, Michael G. Wade

• Publisher: Mac Keith Press
• Year: 2013
• Print ISBN: 9781908316554
• eBook ISBN: 9781908316554
• Topic: Medicine
• Subtopic: Neurology

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.

Table of contents

• Contents
• Foreword
• Preface
• Acknowledgements
• About the Authors
• 1 An Introduction to Motor Development
• 2 Biological Influences on Developmental Change
• 3 Developmental Models and Theories
• 4 Early Movement Development: Birth to 24 Months
• 5 Motor Development of Young Children: 2 to 7 Years of Age
• 6 Movement Development of Young Children: 7 Years to Puberty
• 7 Cerebral Palsy
• 8 Developmental Coordination Disorder
• 9 Children with Intellectual Disability
• 10 Motor Development in Children with Other Developmental Disorders
• 11 Children with Visual Impairment
• 12 Assessment and Intervention for Children with Movement Difficulties
• 13 Perspectives on Typical and Atypical Development
• Index