This book offers a wide variety of easy-to-make crafts, including toys, games, and gifts, and each project begins with a box. The book provides directions, a materials list, and suggestions for setting aside a work area. The projects are illustrated with large full-color photographs and explained with simple step-by-step instructions. Contains a…

Study was designed to investigate whether rivalry, coaction, and audience can be isolated separately from a competitive situation. (Author/RK)

Of an original 79 BVMGT scoring systems, 62 were capable of significantly differentiating between the performance of emotionally handicapped and neurologically handicapped subjects compared with a random sample of Children grouped by age. The 62 items can be employed by psychologists for an objective appraisal of performance of the BVMGT. (Author)

Research efforts that combine longitudinal and cross-sectional studies are making significant contributions to our understanding of motor development. While most measures of motor development provide a description of the present status of the child, there are a few process-oriented tests that provide information about the developmental progression…

Reports results from a controlled longitudinal study of 141 Swedish children with syndromes of perceptual, motor, and attentional deficits, giving special reference to generalized hyperkinesis. (MP)

Comparisons between a group of deaf children and normal-hearing controls on an extensive test battery revealed that the former group was clearly inferior both in general dynamic coordination and in visual-motor coordination. (MP)

Suggests guidelines for art activities that are based on four major developmental characteristics of toddlers: the acquisition of new motor skills, the development of psychological autonomy, the broadening of social relations, and the achievement of symbolic communication. (Author/RH)

When equated on level of maturity, preterm infants were indistinguishable from full-term infants in their rates of response decrement to stimulus repetition and their subsequent response to a novel stimulus. Responsiveness to auditory novelty at four months was a strong predictor of 18-month mental performance for females but not for males. (RH)

Investigates the effects of variable-practice versus constant-practice on the learning of novel motor schemata in 36 children ranging in age from two years one month to four years. (Author/SS)

The results of this survey support the position that universities and colleges are developing an emphasis on motor development programs. (LH)

The article suggests activities to help learning disabled children develop awareness of the differences between right and left. Techniques for combining movement, language, and sensory skills as well as for using musical, visual, and tactile stimuli are described. (CL)