A SENIOR MOVEMENT

A senior honors recital

Letter names and alphabet book reading by senior kindergarteners: an eye movement study.

The study monitored the eye movements of twenty 5-year-old children while reading an alphabet book to examine the manner in which the letters, words, and pictures were fixated and the relation of attention to print to alphabetic knowledge. Children attended little to the print, took longer to first fixate print than illustrations, and labeled fewer letters than when presented with letters in is...

Designing for movement quality in exergames: lessons learned from observing senior citizens playing stepping games.

BACKGROUND Exergames are increasingly used as an exercise intervention to reduce fall risk in elderly. However, few exergames have been designed specifically for elderly, and we lack knowledge about the characteristics of the movements elicited by exergames and thereby about their potential to train functions important for fall risk reduction. OBJECTIVE This study investigates game elements a...

Movement Demands of Elite Under-20s and Senior International Rugby Union Players

This study compared the movement demands of elite international Under-20 age grade (U20s) and senior international rugby union players during competitive tournament match play. Forty elite professional players from an U20 and 27 elite professional senior players from international performance squads were monitored using 10Hz global positioning systems (GPS) during 15 (U20s) and 8 (senior) inter...

Social policy and the internal dynamics of the senior rights movement

Article history: Received 24 June 2009 Received in revised form 10 December 2009 Accepted 11 January 2010 Available online xxxx To understand how the senior rights movement in the United States shapes social policy, it is necessary to look at the role played by large institutionalized organizations and those of smaller grassroots groups. This sociohistorical analysis compares AARP, the Alliance...