Motor Development in Early and Later Childhood: Longitudinal Approaches

by Edited by Alex Fedde Kalverboer , Brian Hopkins , Reint Geuze , Foreword by David Magnusson

• ISBN13: 9780521401012
• ISBN10: 0521401011
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1993-03-26
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

Motor development is an integral part of the developmental process. Understanding the organization of the sensory-motor system and its adaptations in response to environmental factors is a vital part of understanding individual development as a whole. This volume describes and discusses human motor development using longitudinal study methods, and from an interdisciplinary perspective. Researchers from a variety of different backgrounds and disciplines provide a broad-ranging analysis of human motor development, from both the practical and theoretical standpoint, in a book which will be of great interest to paediatricians, psychologists, developmental biologists, developmental psychiatrists and neurologists as well as to research scientists in these fields.

Table of Contents

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. Sø

vik

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.