The article describes a group motor-route activity to help mulitply handicapped blind students develop a complete understanding of spatial-movement concepts and to increase their cognitive motor skills. (Author/CL)

Results of a study conducted in 14 villages of Sui Lin Township, Taiwan, suggest the hypothesis that, under conditions of extreme economic impoverishment and among children within populations where energy protein malnutrition is endemic, there is an inverse relationship between incidence of morbidity in infancy and measures of motor and mental…

As part of a longitudinal study, home observations were made of 14 Down Syndrome and 19 nonretarded infants at 6.5 months and 17 months. Findings stressed the importance of early compensatory training involving Down Syndrome infants and their parents in the home environment. (CL)

Examples are provided of ways in which gross motor activities are integrated into mathematics, language arts, social studies, art, and music and creative movement concepts for preschool- and primary-age children with special needs. (CL)

This paper describes six Ultimate Flag Games which offer a change from traditional games and sports that are usually geared toward athletically inclined students. These new games, aimed at middle school through college students, allow for success from the least-skilled through the most athletically talented students. Players are ability grouped…

Tests run with children to detect musculoskeletal deficits, especially rheumatoid arthritis. (JA)

Suggestions for circus-related physical activities. (SP)

Practice of motor skills while in a state of fatigue results in performance impairment, but learning is not affected. (CK)

Soviet investigation of the development of verbal inhibition of preseverative manual behavior are reviewed. Non-soviet investigations of verbal-manual interaction are considered in relation to the Soviet view of the development of voluntary behavior; and it is argued, on the basis of this evidence, that the Soviet position need not stand or fall…

The use of pom-pom balls made of yarn in a classroom physical education program is described. (DB)

R. Schmitd's schema theory that there are generalized motor programs for a given class of movements was examined with 24 10-year-old educable mentally retarded boys and two nonretarded groups of boys matched on either MA or CA. (Author/SW)

Four developmentally delayed babies were given semicircular canal stimulation in an effort to facilitate their motor and reflex development. All of the children showed motor and/or reflex changes that were attributable to the vestibular stimulation. In addition, some evidence was obtained linking changes in stereotypic responding to the vestibular…