This Article  • Full text PDF  • Reply to article  • Send to a friend  • Save in My Folder  • Save to citation manager  • Permissions  Citing Articles  • Contact me when this article is cited  Related Content  • Similar articles in this journal  Social Bookmarking   What's this?

By Bryant J Cratty, EdD; Namiko Ikeda, PhD; Sister Margaret Mary Martin, MS; Clair Jennett, PhD; Margaret Morris, PhD. Price, $9.75. Pp 177. Charles C Thomas Publisher, 301-327 E Lawrence Ave, Springfield, Ill 62703, 1970.

Niels L. Low, MD, Reviewer

Arch Neurol. 1971;25(3):283.

	Since this article does not have an abstract, we have provided the first 150 words of the full text PDF and any section headings.

Movement Activities, Motor Abilities and the Education of Children is a collection of four experimental studies and three essays from the Perceptual-Motor Learning Laboratory at the University of California in Los Angeles.

One study deals with the self-concept of children who have coordination difficulties and is based on questionnaires. The second experimental study relates to game choices of children with movement problems. The study includes two groups of subjects: normal children and pupils with minor neurologic signs. The third chapter discusses changes in selected perceptual-motor attributes. The expression perceptual-motor is frequently abused nowadays, but the definition given here is clear and refreshing.

"Reading and the Role of Motor Training" is a brief statement emphasizing the large number of causes for poor reading and the very complex relationships of reading failure and motor function.

The book has weaknesses and strengths. The former are due to the designs and sampling of . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

CiteULike    Connotea    Del.icio.us    Digg    Reddit    Technorati    Twitter     What's this?