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	Motor skills disorder - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Motor skills disorder (also known as motor coordination disorder or motor dyspraxia) is a human developmental disorder and is neurological in origin.
		Motor Dyspraxia is a result of weak or disorganised connections in the brain, which then translates to trouble with motor coordination.
		Children with motor skills disorder often suffer low self-esteem resulting from poor ability at sports and teasing by other children.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Motor_skills_disorder (566 words)

	motor_skills
		The goal of this research project is to record the development of motor skills, from a longitudinal perspective, from pre-school age to early adulthood.
		Exact knowledge about the developments of and influencing factors for motor skills during a lifespan are especially necessary in today’s movement-deprived society, in order to be able to prevent the increasing number of health issues stemming from physical activity deficiency such as obesity, cardio-vascular diseases, weak posture and osteoporosis.
		The focus of the study is the examination of the stability and predictability of the basic motor skills of strength, speed, endurance, coordination and flexibility throughout childhood, adolescence and early adulthood.
	www.psychologie.uni-wuerzburg.de /i4pages/html/motor_skills.html (546 words)

	eMedicine - Motor Skills Disorder : Article by Martin Maldonado-Durán, MD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Motor planning consists of the ability of children to imagine a mental strategy to carry out a movement or an action; for instance, how to get on top of a table, how to move from point A to point B and overcome some obstacle, or how to execute a dance step.
		Children with motor skills difficulties often are slower to perform movements as a result of their difficulty to organize and coordinate motion.
		Crucial aspects in motor development are exposure to tasks, caretakers who recognize the developmental needs of a child, the opportunity for the child to be taught skills, appropriate stimulation of the child, and an opportunity for the child to develop and practice new movements.
	www.emedicine.com /ped/topic2640.htm (9612 words)

	Gale Encyclopedia of Psychology: Fine motor skills
		The development of fine motor skills is crucial to an infant's ability to experience and learn about the world and thus plays a central role in the development of intelligence.
		Because the development of fine motor skills plays a crucial role in school readiness and cognitive development, it is considered an important part of the preschool curriculum.
		The development of fine motor skills in children of low-income parents, who often lack the time or knowledge required to foster these abilities, is a key ingredient in the success of programs such as Head Start.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_g2699/is_0004/ai_2699000469 (1336 words)

	Developing Gross Motor Skills (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Gross motor skills are very important in the development of children during early childhood.
		Motor Development: An understanding of motor development will enable you to pick activities that enhance current skills and foster the development of emerging skills.
		Gross Motor Activities: Many of the Nursery Rhyme songs provide an excellent opportunity for children with motor delays to practice their gross motor skills.
	www.rblewis.net /technology/PSY306/grossmotor.html (465 words)

	BabyCentre \| What's the difference between fine motor and gross motor skills? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		A motor skill is an action that involves the movement of muscles in your body.
		Gross motor skills are larger movements involving the arm, leg, or feet muscles or the entire body — things like crawling, running, and jumping are gross motor skills.
		Fine motor skills are those smaller actions like picking things up between the thumb and finger or using the toes to wriggle into sand or the lips and tongue to taste and feel objects.
	www.babycentre.co.uk /expert/6562.html (473 words)

	Motor Skills Disorder
		Motor coordination in daily activities is substantially less than you would expect, considering the patient's age and intelligence.
		Infants with motor challenges are often delayed in achieving milestones such as the ability to roll over, to sit with help, and to sit without help.
		Toddlers who have subtle motor skills deficits in chewing may not accept foods that require greater chewing ability.
	www.psychnet-uk.com /dsm_iv/motor_skills_disorder.htm (432 words)

	Fitness & Wellness
		Survival gross motor skills are typically push and pull type movements that include strikes with arms, legs and batons.
		Survival complex motor skills use more cognitive processing than fine or gross skills and include the Weaver shooting stance (because of its asymmetrical movement) or take-downs using multiple independent components.
		Heart rates stabilize and decrease faster which aids in the reacquisition of fine and complex motor skills much sooner than those officers who are not in good physical shape.
	www.jus.state.nc.us /NCJA/w-jb-1299.htm (590 words)

	Parenting: Motor Development
		Many of my other motor skills will emerge between that first step at around twelve months of age and the portrait at three and a half years.
		Between one and four years of age, gross motor skills fall into one of three areas: movement, using stairs, and play.
		Fine motor skills involve the small muscle movements of my hands and fingers in coordination with his eyes.
	www.parentingme.com /motordev.htm (3648 words)

	Motor Skills (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Motor skill development should be integrated and assessed in a variety of contexts using both qualitative and quantative measures.
		Motor skills are best learned through ongoing engagement in a variety of activities.
		Although it is recommended that gross motor skills be taught in a developmental order, they can be taught in a non-sequential order.
	www.int287.k12.mn.us /gig/html/motor.html (662 words)

	CLIME® - Classroom Learning to Improve Motor Efficiency: What Are "Motor Skills"?
		A motor skill is a function, which involves precise movement of muscles with the intent to perform a specific act.
		Motor difficulties occur when an individual lacks the ability to move in the way he or she originally intended.
		Whether or not a student qualifies for any particular type of special services, incorporating motor activities, which are easily performed on a regular basis, can help them improve their skills and obtain the best results.
	www.educlime.com /skills.htm (493 words)

	TIP: Learning Domains (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Sensory-motor skills are an important category of learning in many tasks and occupations (not to mention all forms of sports).
		Long-term retention of motor skills depends upon regular practice; however, continuous responses show less forgetting in the absence of practice than discrete or procedural skills.
		Marteniuk suggests two ways in which learning/teaching of motor skills can be facilitated: (1) slow down the rate at which information is presented, and (2) reducing the amount of information that needs to processed.
	tip.psychology.org /sensory.html (475 words)

	TeacherSource . Early Childhood . The Importance of Developing Fundamental Motor Skills \| PBS
		Children who do not develop physical skills are those who get left out of play with their friends and could be those who remain physically inactive throughout life.
		For more information on physical skill development, including specific activities and cues to help children develop skills, log on to PE Central at http://www.pecentral.org or go to the lesson ideas at http://www.pecentral.org/lessonideas/cues/cuesmenu.html.
		When we as adults assist children in development of specific physical skills we empower them to learn about the importance of physical activity in their lives and to become physically active and healthy for a lifetime.
	www.pbs.org /teachersource/prek2/issues/1102issue.shtm (1486 words)

	Fine Motor Skills
		Fine motor skills are small muscle movements that occur in the finger, in coordination with the eyes.
		Children with poor motor skills have difficulty learning to print manuscript or cursive letters or who have trouble with the legibility, spacing and organization of letters.
		Teaching fine motor skills is similar to teaching other skills because the teacher must always try to be patient and understanding.
	www.art4children.com /a4c/pages/finemotordevelopment.html (836 words)

	Beery VMI (The Beery-Buktenica Developmental Test of Visual-Motor Integration), 5th Edition: Pearson Assessments, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		These consist of basic gross motor, fine motor, visual, and visual-fine motor developmental "stepping stones" that have been identified by research criteria.
		At each level, activities are included for gross motor, fine motor, visual, and visual-motor development.
		The exercises use numeral and letter shapes so that the motor, visual, and visual-motor skills children learn with geometric shape exercises can be successfully transferred to numeral and letter shapes they will use in school.
	www.pearsonassessments.com /assessments/tests/vmi.htm (828 words)

	Motor skills and child development
		Some helpful hints for parents to aid in the motor skills department of their child's development.
		There are a lot of activities that you can do with your child to help enhance their fine and gross motor skills.
		Fine motor skills are those skills that allow you to develop the ability to do such things as write and manipulate small objects.
	papa.essortment.com /motorskillschi_rgxx.htm (574 words)

	Motor Skills
		Assessment of fine motor skill in musicians and nonmusicians: differences in timing versus sequence accuracy in a bimanual fingering task.
		Neural networks of motor control are well understood and the motor domain therefore lends itself to the study of learning.
		Distinctive abnormalities of motor axonal strength-duration properties in multifocal motor neuropathy and in motor neurone disease.
	www.accelerated-learning-online.com /research/CTG-Motor-Skills-19.asp (798 words)

	Fine Motor Skills — Introduction
		Fine motor development contributes to the development of communication skills in young children.
		Fine motor skills are those skills which require a child to manipulate and gain control over a range of materials and tools.
		Structured learning experiences such as developmental play and learning centres are opportunities for teachers to provide a range of activities which will help develop the fine motor skills of children.
	www.bosnsw-k6.nsw.edu.au /linkages/ContentLinks/links_fmskills.html (242 words)

	ASSESSMENTS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The Bruinsky-Oseretsky Test of Motor Proficiency is an individually administered test that assesses the motor functions of children from 4.5 to 14 years.
		Poor visual motor skills are usually caused by immature gross motor and balance skills.
		The Brigance Inventory of Basic Skills is designed for students whose achievement level is between kindergarten and 6th grade level.
	www.flash.net /~brainwks/assess.html (2316 words)

	Gross Motor Skills
		Gross motor development is often better than fine motor development in boys with fragile X syndrome.
		Poor motor planning may lead to difficulties in learning certain skills, such as throwing and catching a ball.
		With some of the sensory defensiveness seen in children with fragile X (see Sensory Integration Characteristics), motor movements may be inhibited by a reluctance to catch a ball, focus on a target, or other sports related skills.
	www.fragilex.org /html/motor1.htm (473 words)

	GH6113 Understanding and Encouraging Your Young Child's Large Motor Development, MU Extension
		The large motor skills described below are given with the typical age of achievement.
		To a great extent, achievement of large motor skills depends on children having the opportunity to try and practice the skills.
		However, since it's difficult to be objective about your child's large motor performance, it helps to understand what is typical of children in a certain age range.
	muextension.missouri.edu /xplor/hesguide/humanrel/gh6113.htm (1200 words)

	Physical Education and Motor Skills
		Preschool education is a perfect opportunity for children to enhance their motor skills through physical activity.
		When children participate in a variety of movements, they have a foundation of motor skills that they can build and refine throughout their school years.
		A responsibility when teaching motor skills is to provide information to the child concerning his or her performance.
	www.mc.maricopa.edu /dept/d46/psy/dev/Spring01/Preschool/education.html (555 words)

	Preschool Activities that Develops Fine Motor Skills (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Once a child has mastered these two skills, she'll be eager and ready to move on to increasingly difficult activities: cooking, art, hands-on science "magic", housework, etc.
		These kinds of activities are marvelous for improving fine motor skills.
		1) not only develop fine motor skills, but make children very proud--because they can see clearly that they really did contribute a little something to the life of their family.
	www.preschoolpower.com /Pages/SkillFineMotor.htm (532 words)

	FINE MOTOR DEVELOPMENT (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Perhaps the best way to look at it is on a continuum and to place movement patterns closer or farther from the ends depending on the predominance of action in small vs. large muscle groups.
		There is little information regarding fine motor development in areas other than the hand, but, since the hands play such an important part in how we manipulate the world we'll examine one aspect of hand motor control - writing.
		Just as reading may be considered an essential step in the development of human potential in the cognitive domain, fine motor development may be viewed in the same way since it opens the door to a medium through which communication and expression can be enhanced which certainly enhances the development of one's human potential.
	www.geolog.com /dhp/dhpfine.htm (271 words)

	Fine Motor Skills (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Fine motor skills are movements mainly produced by the body's small muscle groups.
		Fine motor skills often involve the hands and eyes, but not necessarily.
		For example, visually impaired people are able to develop fine motor skills without the use of their eyes and soccer players often develop fine motor control in their feet through precise ball handling.
	ehlt.flinders.edu.au /education/DLT/2000/FINAL/fineint2.htm (876 words)

	Infant Development
		Gross motor skills involve large muscle movement, while fine motor skills involve more finely tuned movement.
		New motor skills are the most dramatic and observable changes in infants during their first year.
		Motor skills transform babies from being physically helpless individuals to being able to lift their heads, sit up, and crawl around the house.
	www.mc.maricopa.edu /dept/d46/psy/dev/Fall98/Infant/Infant.html (966 words)

	Fine Motor Skills: Birth to 2 years (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Generally thought of as the movement and use of hands and upper extremities, fine motor skills include reaching, grasping and manipulating objects with your hands.
		This is a list of fine motor skills children should demonstrate between the ages of 0-2 years.
		As the development of vision and the sense of touch is important to the development of motor skills.
	childrenshosp-richmond.org /families/developmental/fine_motor_birth.htm (606 words)

	KinderStart - Child Development : Motor Skills/Physical Development
		Motor Skills disorder, or Dyspraxia is a type of learning dissability involving the body's system of motion that interferes with a person's ability to make a controlled or coordinated physical response in a given situation.
		There are two categories within the area of motor skills: gross motor and fine motor.The course of children's motor skills development is mapped using a chart of developmental milestones.
		Most children become ready as their fine motor skills improve through the many activities they participate in.
	www.kinderstart.com /childdevelopment/motorskillsphysicaldevelopment (501 words)

	Developing Fine Motor Skills
		Fine motor skills can be defined as small muscle movements: those that occur in the finger, in coordination with the eyes.
		Teaching fine motor skills is similar to teaching other skills because the instructor must always try to be patient and understanding.
		Fine motor skills won't develop over-night, but with time and practice.
	members.tripod.com /%7Eimaware/fmotor.html (428 words)

	Teachers.Net - TEACHERS.NET GAZETTE - Teachers.Net Gazette provides news from Teachers.Net direct to teachers around ...
		Ask yourselves how many of your struggling students have fine motor difficulties -- poor hand writing, trouble copying from the board, poor cutting and coloring skills, low visual-perception skills, difficulty with puzzles and mazes, trouble identifying letters and numerals, as well as poor reading and writing ability.
		Often we dismiss the fine motor skills because we are so concerned about the students' ability to read and write but what we fail to recognize is that fine motor skills are necessary for both reading and writing.
		The benefits that we will reap from the development of fine motor ability will not only increase and enhance their ability to read and write, but improve their ability to be problem solvers and better thinkers.
	teachers.net /gazette/FEB02/fedele.html (744 words)

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