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Title: Development of Movement Coordination in Children
Code: B47375
Author: G Savelsbergh,S Bennett,K Davids andJ van der Kamp
Year: 2003
Length: 228 pages
Price: £29.99 
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Overview:

Co-ordination of movement plays a key role in human development and is an active area in sport and health sciences. This book looks in detail at how children develop basic skills, such as walking and reaching for objects, and more complex skills such as throwing and catching a ball accurately or riding a bicycle.

Contents:
  • 1. Theoretical Perspectives on the Development of Movement Co-ordination in Children ergonomics
  • 2. Motor Development and Ergonomics: Lifting Objects as a Window on Motor Control Children
  • 3. Children's Overestimation of their Physical Abilities: Links to Injury Proneness
  • 4. Road-Crossing Behaviour in Young Children
  • 5. Learning to Draw and to Write: Issues of Variability and Constraints
  • 6. Constraints in Children's Learning to use Spoon Health Sciences
  • 7. Reflexes Reflected: Past and Present of Theory and Practice
  • 8. Children's Co-ordination and Developmental Movement Difficulty
  • 9. Perceptual-Motor Behaviour of Children with Down Syndrome
  • 10. Discrete Bimanual Movement Co-ordination in Children with Hemiparetic Cerebral Palsy
  • 11. Locomotion in Children with Cerebral Palsy: Early Predictive Factors for Ambulation and Gait Analysis Sport
  • 12. Catching Action Development
  • 13. degrees of Freedom, Movement Co-Ordination and Interceptive Action of Children With and Without Cerebral Palsy
  • 14. The Development of Throwing Behaviour
  • 15. The Co-ordination of Kicking Techniques in Children
  • 16. Development of Locomotor Co-ordination and Control in Children


About the Author:

Simon Bennett, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK

Keith Davids, University of Otago, New Zealand

Geert Savelsbergh, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK

John van der Kamp, Free University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Observing & Analysing Learners' Movement
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