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)

The article discusses stimulating motor development as it relates to learning difficulties with reference to the work of Dutch neurologist P. Mesker. It is concluded that disturbance in sensorimotor development is the most important cause of learning difficulties in the first years of elementary school. (SBH)

The relative effectiveness of multisensory-, physical-, modeling-, and verbal-prompting assessment strategies upon the gross motor performance of 40 moderately retarded children (ages 5 to 15 years) was investigated, taking into account the impact of the Ss' levels of reflexive maturation and orthopedic functioning. (Author/DLS)

Games analysis process is a process whereby teachers of handicapped students can design games to accommodate individual motoric differences, as well as to promote specific behavioral outcomes such as cooperation. (SBH)

Research studies have indicated that the deaf are inferior to the hearing in motor ability, including the components of static and dynamic balance performance. Also, the deaf can improve their motor performance. In addition to a well-rounded physical education program, a program of gymnastics can meet the special needs of students with balance,…

The successful development of a basic movement program depends on the teacher's ability to recognize and to work effectively with varying levels of student motor and cognitive proficiency. (LH)

Examined how infants acquire adaptive locomotion in the novel task of going up and down slopes. Found that infants' judgments became increasingly accurate and exploration became increasingly efficient, with no transfer over the transition from crawling to walking. Infants learned to gauge their abilities on-line as they encountered each hill at…

Six adults with Down syndrome performed discrete elbow or wrist, flexion or extension movements in a sagittal plane, moving one of the joints as fast as possible. The subjects demonstrated simultaneous bursts of activity in the flexor and extensor muscles controlling both joints. This adaptive feature may reflect a general tendency of these…