the purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of a selected motor program (as a motor experience) on manipulative skills in 4-6-year-old boys. 40 subjects were selected randomly using a personal information questionnaire. after the pretest, the ulrich's test of gross motor development (2000) including fundamental motor skills, locomotors skills, manipulative skills and controllin...

background and objectives: motor development is considered as a part of the process of growth and development in which the child, firstly gains control over his own body function, and then utilizes it for interaction and manipulation with the environment. the aim of this study was to standardize of peabody developmental motor scale (pdms) in normal children aged 72 to 83 months living in tehran...

purpose the aim of this study was to examine the influence of selected exercises on motor development in elementary school third grade girl students in ahwaz city, iran. methods the present study was semi–experimental, performed as field and using experimental and control groups. the statistical population included all third grade girl students of elementary schools of ahvaz city (10,500 subjec...

The physical education environment is a key opportunity to intervene because of access to children and adolescents for the purpose of increasing physical activity participation and improving fundamental movement skill proficiency. A non-randomised controlled trial involving two schools in a rural Irish town was carried out in September 2011 to evaluate the Youth-Physical Activity Towards Health...

BACKGROUND Spoken and gestural communication proficiency varies greatly among autistic individuals. Three studies examined the role of oral- and manual-motor skill in predicting autistic children's speech development. METHODS Study 1 investigated whether infant and toddler oral- and manual-motor skills predict middle childhood and teenage speech fluency; Study 2 verified those early infant an...

Skill acquisition is a form of motor learning that may provide key insights into the aging brain. Although previous work suggests that older adults learn novel motor tasks slower and to a lesser extent than younger adults, we have recently demonstrated no significant effect of chronological age on the rates and amounts of skill acquisition, nor on its long-term retention, in adults over the age...

Three groups of children with dyslexia, mean age 8, 13 and 17 years, and three groups of normally achieving children matched for age and IQ with the dyslexic groups undertook three tests of motor skill. For peg placing and articulation rate, the children with dyslexia were significantly slower than their chronological age controls, and equivalent to their reading age controls. For bead threadin...