Perceptual-motor Activities for Children

Perceptual-motor Activities for Children
Author: Jill A. Johnstone
Publisher: Human Kinetics
Total Pages: 242
Release: 2011
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1450401546

A guide that outlines a 32-week programme of sequential station activities that will help pre-school and young school aged children in various stages of development, particularly those who are lagging behind in their perceptual-motor skills. It provides what you need to create a perceptual-motor learning laboratory for your students.

Basic movement activities

Basic movement activities
Author: Jack Capon
Publisher: Front Row Experience
Total Pages: 36
Release: 1994
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9780915256365

This is the "first" in a series of 5 activity books covering preschool and the primary grades. Use these classroom-tested movement education activities to assess your students motor strengths and weaknesses in preschool and early elementary grades or special education classes. The sequence of easily given tests and tasks requires minimal instruction time and your kids will find the activities to be interesting, challenging and fun! Part 1 in this first book in the series includes a Perceptual-Motor Evaluation Scale that evaluates students on the Identification of Body Parts, Walking Board activities, Hopping activities, Jump and Land activities, Obstacle Course activities, Ball Catch activities, and includes a place for Optional Tests. Part 2 of this book includes: Walking Activities, Running Activities, Leaping Activities, Jumping Activities, Hopping Activities, Galloping Activities, Skipping Activities, Sliding Activities, General Locomotion Activities, and Partner Activities.

Developing Ocular Motor and Visual Perceptual Skills

Developing Ocular Motor and Visual Perceptual Skills
Author: Kenneth A. Lane
Publisher: SLACK Incorporated
Total Pages: 320
Release: 2005
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 9781556425950

"Developing Ocular Motor and Visual Perceptual Skills contains daily lesson plans and practical tips on how to successfully start an activities program. Other helpful features include a glossary of terms and a reference list of individuals and organizations that work with learning disabled children to develop these skills. The first of its kind, Developing Ocular Motor and Visual Perceptual Skills utilizes a learning approach by linking the theories with the remediation activities to help learning disabled children improve their perceptual and fine motor skills. All professionals looking to assess and enhance a variety of fine motor and visual perception deficiencies will welcome this workbook into their practices" -- Publisher description.

Perceptual-motor Lesson Plans, Level 1

Perceptual-motor Lesson Plans, Level 1
Author: Jack J. Capon
Publisher: Front Row Experience
Total Pages: 220
Release: 1975
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9780915256037

The year's program consists of 25 weekly perceptual-motor lessons designed for students in preschool, kindergarten, first to third grade and special education classes.

Motor Skills and Their Foundational Role for Perceptual, Social, and Cognitive Development

Motor Skills and Their Foundational Role for Perceptual, Social, and Cognitive Development
Author: Klaus Libertus
Publisher: Frontiers Media SA
Total Pages: 295
Release: 2017-05-18
Genre: Motor ability in children
ISBN: 2889451593

Motor skills are a vital part of healthy development and are featured prominently both in physical examinations and in parents’ baby diaries. It has been known for a long time that motor development is critical for children’s understanding of the physical and social world. Learning occurs through dynamic interactions and exchanges with the physical and the social world, and consequently movements of eyes and head, arms and legs, and the entire body are a critical during learning. At birth, we start with relatively poorly developed motor skills but soon gain eye and head control, learn to reach, grasp, sit, and eventually to crawl and walk on our own. The opportunities arising from each of these motor milestones are profound and open new and exciting possibilities for exploration and interactions, and learning. Consequently, several theoretical accounts of child development suggest that growth in cognitive, social, and perceptual domains are influences by infants’ own motor experiences. Recently, empirical studies have started to unravel the direct impact that motor skills may have other domains of development. This volume is part of this renewed interest and includes reviews of previous findings and recent empirical evidence for associations between the motor domain and other domains from leading researchers in the field of child development. We hope that these articles will stimulate further research on this interesting question.

Categories of Human Learning

Categories of Human Learning
Author: Arthur W. Melton
Publisher: Academic Press
Total Pages: 373
Release: 2014-05-12
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1483258378

Categories of Human Learning covers the papers presented at the Symposium on the Psychology of Human Learning, held at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor on January 31 and February 1, 1962. The book focuses on the different classifications of human learning. The selection first offers information on classical and operant conditioning and the categories of learning and the problem of definition. Discussions focus on classical and instrumental conditioning and the nature of reinforcement; comparability of the forms of human learning; conditioning experiments with human subjects; and subclasses of classical and instrumental conditioning. The text then takes a look at the representativeness of rote verbal learning and centrality of verbal learning. The publication ponders on probability learning, evaluation of stimulus sampling theory, and short-term memory and incidental learning. Topics include short-term retention, stimulus variation experiments, reinforcement schedules and mean response, systematic interpretations, and methodological approaches. The book then examines the behavioral effects of instruction to learning, verbalizations and concepts, and the generality of research on transfer functions. The selection is highly recommended for psychologists and educators wanting to conduct studies on the categories of human learning.

Motor Development in Early and Later Childhood

Motor Development in Early and Later Childhood
Author: Alex Fedde Kalverboer
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 406
Release: 1993-02-25
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 0521401011

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.