The West Virginia School of Osteopathic Medicine in Lewisburg instituted a free, community-based medical clinic in spring 1995 as part of an institution-wide Osteopathic Principles and Practices Integration Project. Under this initiative, osteopathic medical students are provided with 26 hours of supervised experience in osteopathic palpatory diagnosis and osteopathic manipulative treatment. Th...

The hallmark of osteopathic medical education is the inclusion of hands-on instruction in osteopathic manipulative medicine (OMM), which includes palpatory diagnosis and osteopathic manipulative treatment (OMT). This OMM training typically involves a primary instructor presenting theory and techniques with step-by-step demonstrations to a large group of first- and second-year osteopathic medica...

The progressive acquisition of manipulative skill is an important developmental milestone. It provides infants with an increasing set of opportunities for knowing the external world and for acquiring abilities also relevant to other domains, most especially social interaction. The ability to use the hands to grasp and extend an object in a directed fashion toward an interlocutor facilitates the...

fundamental movement skills are observable patterns of motor behaviors including locomotor, manipulative, and stability activities. the aim of this study was to assess the gross motor development and the movement skill proficiency in elementary school children in tehran city. the test of gross motor development-2 (ulrich, 2000) was administered to 712 children aged between 7 and 11. performance...

OPINION article Front. Ecol. Evol., 09 February 2021Sec. Behavioral and Evolutionary Ecology https://doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2021.635802

Introduction Toothbrush design, 1, 2 brushing method,3, 4 manipulative skills of the child, 5,6 parental involvement/brushing instruction, 8 and brushing duration9,1° are most cited as determinants of toothbrushing efficacy. Of these, Honkala11 and coworkers found that brushing duration was consistently correlated with plaque removal in children. Further, the brushing times produced a nearly pe...

Responding to the concern from our faculty that undergraduate students do not have robust laboratory skills, we designed and implemented a strategy to individually teach and assess the manipulative skills of students in first-year laboratories. Five core laboratory skills were selected for the course entitled Human Biology, a large, first-year class of students, most of whom were enrolled in Ba...

Educational research has demonstrated that the use of concrete objects or manipulatives in the classroom enhances problem-solving skills and conceptual learning. This project examines the use of manipulatives in a neurophysiology curriculum and assesses their effectiveness on student comprehension. Three activities, building an ion channel, building a nerve cell, and passive membrane properties...

This paper presents a study of the use of a digital manipulative developed to promote creative narrative construction and storytelling. The study was carried with 27 groups of preschoolers, of five years of age, who interacted with the digital manipulative during free-play time, during a period of six months. The study sought to access aspects of children’s embodiment of the narratives, and how...

We address the problem of generalizing manipulative actions across different tasks and objects. Our robotic agent acquires task-oriented skills from a teacher, and it abstracts skill parameters away from the specificity of the objects and tools used by the teacher. This process enables the transfer of skills to novel objects. Our method relies on the modularization of a task’s representation. T...