Motor skill acquisition of the mentally handicapped : issues in research and training /

Based upon a conference held in Bethesda in 1985, this volume brings together the research and theoretical perspectives of experts in the developmental aspects of motor control, coordination, and skill in the mentally handicapped. This is accomplished within the context of cognition. Section I deals...

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Corporate Authors: ScienceDirect (Online service), National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (U.S.), National Institute of Handicapped Research (U.S.)
Other Authors: Wade, Michael G.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam ; New York : New York, N.Y., U.S.A. : North Holland ; Sole distributors for the U.S.A. and Canada, Elsevier Science, 1986.
Series:Advances in psychology (Amsterdam, Netherlands) ; 31.
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Summary:Based upon a conference held in Bethesda in 1985, this volume brings together the research and theoretical perspectives of experts in the developmental aspects of motor control, coordination, and skill in the mentally handicapped. This is accomplished within the context of cognition. Section I deals with the dynamics of controlling movement skill and the nature of the variables that mediate the learning of motor skills. Sections II and III examine the traditional area of research in motor behavior, i.e., the speed of information processing and reaction time paradigms. The last section discusses the issue of training to minimize the effects of mental retardation on motor behavior.
Physical Description:1 online resource (ix, 296 pages) : illustrations
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
ISBN:9780080866857
0080866859