Development of Movement Coordination in Children - Applications in the Field of Ergonomics, Health Sciences and Sport

Zusatztext 'Very well-structured! well-written and important contribution to the motor learning literature. Many individuals! including students! teachers and those working in the sport! health and exercise sciences will find in it a great deal of valuable information! and therefore I strongly recommend it to those working in these fields.' - European Physical Education Review Informationen zum Autor John van der Kamp, Geert Savelsbergh, Keith Davids, Simon J. Bennett Klappentext This important book focuses exclusively on the development of movement coordination in children, bringing together both cognitive and ecological-psychological approaches to the subject. Zusammenfassung This important book focuses exclusively on the development of movement coordination in children, bringing together both cognitive and ecological-psychological approaches to the subject. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Theoretical Perspectives on the Development of Movement Co-ordination in Children ergonomics 2. Motor Development and Ergonomics: Lifting Objects as a Window on Motor Control Children 3. Children's Overestimation of their Physical Abilities: Links to Injury Proneness 4. Road-Crossing Behaviour in Young Children 5. Learning to Draw and to Write: Issues of Variability and Constraints 6. Constraints in Children's Learning to use Spoon Health Sciences 7. Reflexes Reflected: Past and Present of Theory and Practice 8. Children's Co-ordination and Developmental Movement Difficulty 9. Perceptual-Motor Behaviour of Children with Down Syndrome 10. Discrete Bimanual Movement Co-ordination in Children with Hemiparetic Cerebral Palsy 11. Locomotion in Children with Cerebral Palsy: Early Predictive Factors for Ambulation and Gait Analysis Sport 12. Catching Action Development 13. degrees of Freedom, Movement Co-Ordination and Interceptive Action of Children With and Without Cerebral Palsy 14. The Development of Throwing Behaviour 15. The Co-ordination of Kicking Techniques in Children 16. Development of Locomotor Co-ordination and Control in Children...

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• Authors: Geert (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam Savelsbergh, Geert Davids Savelsbergh
• Assisted by: Simon J Bennett (Editor), Simon J. Bennett (Editor), Keith Davids (Editor), Davids Keith (Editor), John van der Kamp (Editor), Geert Savelsbergh (Editor), van der Kamp John (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 22.05.2003
• EAN: 9780415247375
• ISBN: 978-0-415-24737-5
• No. of pages: 288
• Subjects: Guides > Sport > General, dictionaries, handbooks, yearbooks, history; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Non-clinical medicine; MEDICAL / Pediatrics, MEDICAL / Neurology, MEDICAL / Physiology, PSYCHOLOGY / Developmental / Child, Neurology & clinical neurophysiology, Child & developmental psychology, Child, developmental and lifespan psychology, Neurology and clinical neurophysiology, Paediatric medicine, Biomechanics, Human Kinetics