Motor Development in Early and Later Childhood

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List of contributors Foreword Preface Part I. Setting The Scene: 1. Motor development in children at risk: two decades of research in experimental clinical psychology A. F. Kalverboer 2. Longitudinal studies in motor development: developmental neurological considerations B. C. L. Touwen Part II. Biological Basis of Motor Development: 3. Principles of early motor development in the human H. F. R. Prechtl Natural priorities for developmental study: neuroembryological perspectives of motor development R. R. Provine 5. The 'fixed action pattern' concept revisited: an ethological commentary on the chapters by Prechtl and Provine G. P. Baerends and T. G. G. Groothuis Part III. Development of Body Posture and Goal Directed Reaching: 6. Early postnatal development of posture control: normal and abnormal aspects M. H. Wollacott 7. Studying the development of goal-directed behaviour C. von Hofsten 8. Development of motor functions: a 'developmental neurological' approach P. Casaer Part IV. Motor Development, Early Communication and Cognition: 9. Early interactional signalling: the role of facial movements H. Papousek and M. Papousek 10. Motor development: communication and cognition G. Butterworth and F. Franco 11. On faces and hands and the development of communication B. Hopkins Part V. Acquisition Of Skills: 12. Individual patterns of tool use by infants K. Connolly and M. Dalgleshi 13. Tool use, hand cooperation and the development of object manipulation in human and non-human primates J. Vauclair 14. Handwriting: a developmental perspective G. P. Van Galen 15. Development of children's writing performance: some educational implications N. Sovik Part IV. Motor Development and Handicap: 16. Early motor development in term and preterm children R. H. Largo, S. Kundu and L. Thun-Hohenstein 17. Relationship between perinatal risk factors and motor development at the ages of 5 and 9 years K. Michelsson and E. Lindahl 18. Motor development and minor handicap S. E. Henderson 19. Longitudinal and cross-sectional approaches in experimental studies in motor development R. H. Geuze Part VII. Methodological and Conceptual Considerations: 20. The longitudinal study of motor development: methodological issues W. Schneider 21. Theoretical issues in the longitudinal study of motor development B. Hopkins, P. J. Beek and A. F. Kalverboer Epilogue: description versus explanation B. Hopkins, A. F. Kalverboer and R. H. Geuze Index.