Perceptual-motor Activities for Children

Understanding Motor Development: Infants, Children, Adolescents, Adults is a best-selling text that provides students and professionals with a comprehensive understanding of motor development across the lifespan. Combining descriptive and explanatory perspectives, the book explores the processes and products of motor development from infancy through adulthood. It integrates biological, affective, cognitive, and behavioral dimensions at each developmental stage, presenting students with current research and theory. The text uses the Triangulated Hourglass Model as a consistent conceptual framework, offering clarity and structure for understanding motor development in infants, children, adolescents, and adults.

Key Features:

• Covers motor development across the entire lifespan, from infancy to adulthood.
• Integrates biological, cognitive, affective, and behavioral aspects of development.
• Provides the most up-to-date research and theoretical perspectives.
• Uses the Triangulated Hourglass Model as a consistent conceptual framework.
• Combines descriptive and explanatory approaches to the processes and products of motor development.
• Serves as a resource for students, educators, and professionals in kinesiology, physical therapy, occupational therapy, and related fields.