Themes in Motor Development

Abstract

Section 1 Postural Control.- Postural Control and Development.- The Development of Proprioceptive Control.- Postural Control.- Section 2 Skill Development and Learning Disabilities.- Some Aspects of the Development of Motor Control in Down's Syndrome.- The Trainability of Motor Processing Strategies with Developmentally Delayed Performers.- Motor Dysfunctions in Children. Towards a Process-Oriented Diagnosis.- Information Processing and Motivation as Determinants of Performance in Children with Learning Disabilities.- Development of Coordination and Control in the Mentally Handicapped.- Manual Language: Its Relevance to Communication Acquisition in Autistic Children.- Section 3 The Development of Fine Motor Skills.- The Formation of the Finger Grip during Prehension a Cortically-Mediated Visuo-Motor Pattern.- Handwriting Disturbances: Developmental Trends.- Section 4 Perceptual and Cognitive Control of Motor Behaviour.- Normal and Abnormal Repetitive Stereotyped Behaviours.- Inhibitory Mechanisms in Children's Skill Development.- Sensory-Motor Control and Balance: A Behavioural Perspective.- Section 5 Posture and Locomotion.- From Stepping to Adaptive Walking: Modulations of an Automatism.- Developmental Changes in the Relative Timing of Locomotion.- Section 6 Cultural Influences.- Motor Development and Cultural Attitudes.- The Acquisition of an Everyday Technical Motor Skill: The Pounding of Cereals in Mali.- Section 7 Speech & Language.- Parallels between Motor and Language Development.- Lateralisation and Motor Development.- Author Index.