Background The developmental delays of children, is one of the most important sources of information to detect the developmental delays of children. The aim of this study was to investigate the developmental delays and its relationship with anthropometric indices in Urmia city, Iran. Materials and Methods This is a descriptive analytical study that conducted on 422 children who had 6-12 months ...

The basic level of postural control is functionally active from early infancy onwards: young infants possess a repertoire of direction-specific postural adjustments. Whether or not direction-specific adjustments are used depends on the child's age and the nature of the postural task. The second level of control emerges after 3 months: children start to develop the capacity to adapt postural act...

1 Illinois State Geological Survey, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 615 East Peabody Drive, Champaign, Illinois, USA. 2 Département des sciences de la Terre et de l’Atmosphère, Université du Québec à Montréal, Montréal, Québec, Canada. 3 Prairie Research Institute, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 615 East Peabody Drive, Champaign, Illinois, USA. * Corresponding author: c...

BACKGROUND Infants born preterm are at increased risk of developing cognitive and motor impairments compared with infants born at term. Early developmental interventions have been used in the clinical setting with the aim of improving the overall functional outcome for these infants. However, the long-term benefit of these programmes remains unclear. OBJECTIVES To review the effectiveness of ...

learning motor tasks is one of the fundamental attributes of mankind'sexperiences and is a collection of sensitive, cognitive and motor processes. manyof complex motor behaviors are performed based on a type of order or sequence.in the present study, the developmental differences in motor sequence learningwere examined in three groups of children (age range 7,8,10 yr) and one controlgroup ...

introduction: previous studies have emphasized the importance of early detection of children with developmental coordination disorder (dcd) to prevent the development of secondary academic, emotional and social manifestations of the disorder. a better understanding of these issues is the need for a valid measurement tool. parent report has the potential for providing historical knowledge of the...

Disk drives are now available with capacities on the order of hundreds of gigabytes. What has not become available is an easy way to manage storage. With installed machines located across the enterprise, the backup, management of application installation, and maintenance of systems have become a nightmare. An increasing trend in the storage industry is to virtualize storage resources, maintaini...

If the influence of visual-motor integration (copying forms) on the quality of handwriting has been widely investigated, the influence of eye-hand coordination (tracing item) has been less well analyzed. The Concise Assessment Scale for Children’s Handwriting (BHK), the Developmental Test of Visual Perception (DTVP-2), and the section “Manual Dexterity” of the Movement Assessment Battery for Ch...

the aim of this study was to investigate the effect of a selected physical activity program on the development of motor skills in children with attention deficit / hyperactivity disorder (adhd) and high functioning autism (hfa). in this semiexperimental research, 20 children (8.8+0.7 years old) with hfa and 10 children (7.9+1.4 years old) with adhd based on pretest scores were randomly selected...