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Peer reviewedWilson, Lonny R. – Perceptual and Motor Skills, 1971
Descriptors: Discrimination Learning, Handicapped Children, Learning Processes, Learning Theories
Peer reviewedHill, Everett W.; And Others – RE:view, 1989
Relevant orientation and mobility (OM) skills for visually impaired infants foster sensory, motor, and conceptual development. OM personnel need to consider alternative teaching models, personnel preparation needs, sensory aids issues, and research issues. (DB)
Descriptors: Child Development, Cognitive Development, Delivery Systems, Infants
Shilts, Donna – Our Children, 2000
Sensory and motor experiences are essential in childhood and are the foundation for all higher level learning and skill acquisition. This paper examines how young children make sense of sensory experiences, focusing on infants and toddlers, preschoolers, and school-age children. It also looks at the importance of creating an environment rich in…
Descriptors: Child Development, Early Childhood Education, Elementary Education, Motor Development
Gallahue, David L. – 1983
Perceptual-motor functioning is a cyclic process involving: (1) organizing incoming sensory stimuli with past or stored perceptual information; (2) making motor (internal) decisions based on the combination of sensory (present) and perceptual (past) information; (3) executing the actual movement (observable act) itself; and (4) evaluating the act…
Descriptors: Children, Elementary Education, Motor Development, Movement Education
Cruz, Maria del C.; Ayala, Myrna – 1987
Case studies of eight children with speech and language impairments are presented in a review of the intervention efforts at the Demonstration Center for Preschool Special Education (DCPSE) in Puerto Rico. Five components of the intervention model are examined: social medical history, intelligence, motor development, socio-emotional development,…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Foreign Countries, Intervention, Language Handicaps
Download full textTucker, Jamie, Comp.; And Others – 1976
Presented are descriptions of 245 activities for use with young handicapped children. The activities, compiled by teachers in the Austin Early Childhood Special Education Program, are grouped according to the following 12 areas: pre-academic, language, science, perceptual, motor, games, music and creative expression, social-emotional, arts and…
Descriptors: Activities, Class Activities, Creative Expression, Early Childhood Education
Sorrell, Howard M. – Practical Pointers, 1978
A circuit approach and station techniques are used to depict perceptual motor games for handicapped and nonhandicapped children. Twenty activities are described in terms of objectives, materials, and procedures, and their focus on visual tracking, visual discrimination and copying of forms, spatial body perception, fine motor coordination, tactile…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Depth Perception, Disabilities, Elementary Secondary Education
ARIN Intermediate Unit 28, Indiana, PA. – 1973
The teaching guide for a circus unit to be used with handicapped children, 4 to 8 years of age, contains lists of instructional materials and lesson plans for 9 days. The unit described to be a culminating activity for the latter part of the year, is said to increase motor, academic, and perceptual skills of mentally, physically, emotionally…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Class Activities, Exceptional Child Education, Handicapped Children
Whitcraft, Carol – 1971
Investigations and theories concerning interrelationships of motoric experiences, perceptual-motor skills, and learning are reviewed, with emphasis on early engramming of form and space concepts. Covered are studies on haptic perception of form, the matching of perceptual data and motor information, Kephart's perceptual-motor theory, and…
Descriptors: Exceptional Child Research, Motor Development, Neurology, Perceptual Development
Peer reviewedSunal, Cynthia S. – Reading Improvement, 1978
Shows that a perceptual-motor curriculum in body image and in space and directionality produces significant effects for kindergarteners identified as potentially perceptual-motor disabled. (RL)
Descriptors: Educational Programs, Educational Research, Kindergarten Children, Learning Disabilities
Peer reviewedDePauw, Karen Pamelia – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 1978
Investigated was the effect on the sensory integration of 24 aphasic students, of a 7-month sensorimotor program-designed to stimulate the tactile, vestibular, and proprioceptive systems; motor planning ability; bilateral integration; postural and equilibrium responses; visual form and space perception; and motor development. ( DLS)
Descriptors: Aphasia, Elementary Secondary Education, Exceptional Child Research, Learning Disabilities
Peer reviewedHunt, J. McVicker – Merrill-Palmer Quarterly, 1976
Seven sequential ordinal scales of sensorimotor development are briefly described. These scales permit modification in the strategy for assessing infant development, investigating its structure and investigating infant-environment interaction. (GO)
Descriptors: Behavior Rating Scales, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Tests, Data Collection
Peer reviewedRosner, Jerome – Reading Teacher, 1971
Suggests specific ways in which the classroom teacher can teach to a child's perceptual and instructional weakness through his strengths. Notes that the goal is to provide instruction in the subject area, not just in perceptual skills. Bibliography. (RW)
Descriptors: Auditory Perception, Classroom Techniques, Diagnostic Teaching, Elementary School Teachers
Sator, Rita A., Ed. – 1973
Included in the daily program are listings of demonstration events, film showings, sports activities and session offerings. After a greeting from Jean Kennedy Smith for the Kennedy Foundation, the Special Olympics program is reviewed and ways are suggested for developing a local program. Discussed are new dimensions in physical education for the…
Descriptors: Athletics, Behavioral Objectives, Conference Reports, Exceptional Child Education
Council for Exceptional Children, Reston, VA. Information Center on Exceptional Children. – 1971
One of a series of over 50 similar selected bibliographies dealing with handicapped and gifted children, the bibliography contains 96 references concerning perceptual-motor development and learning. Entries, which include research reports, texts, journal articles, and other types of literature, were selected from Exceptional Child Education…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Bibliographies, Exceptional Child Education, Handicapped Children
