General motor ability was tested and analyzed in 1291 preschool children (670 boys and 621 girls), aged 4-7 by battery of 7 motor tests. Estimates of the structure of general motor ability (factor) of boys and girls separately in every age category were performed according to the principle component method. Research results pointed to the similarity of general motor abilities in boys and girls,...

The main aim of the study was to establish the qualitative changes of motor dimensions between the ages of 10 and 14. The sample consists of 550 boys aged 10, 12 and 14. A battery of 26 tests was used for measuring motor abilities. The structure of motor abilities was established with the use of the factor analysis. The results show the emergence of significant qualitative changes of motor dime...

The purpose of this study was to assess the influence of functional abilities on specificmotor skills. A total number of 92 male water polo players (age 12±0.5 years, body height 156.96±22.3 cm, body weight 51.02±33.18 kg) with at least two years' experience, were enrolled in the study. The investigation protocol consisted of standardized anthropometric measurements, estimation of maximum oxyge...

Background: spastic diplegic cerebral palsy (D-CP) is frequently related to periventricular leukomalacia (PVL), which usually affects the descending motor fibers of the association cortex and association fibers of the visual, auditory and somesthesic functions. Aim: to verify the performance of children with D-CP regarding their psycholinguistic skills. Method: participants were eight individua...

RELATIONS BETWEEN MOTOR, SOCIAL, AND COGNITIVE SKILLS IN YOUNG CHILDREN WITH DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES Helyn Kim, M.A George Mason University, 2012 Thesis Director: Dr. Timothy W. Curby The importance of children’s motor abilities, in relation to other developmental areas, has been acknowledged in both theory and research. However, researchers have typically focused on gross motor abilities in...

The research was carried out in order to determine the infl uence of morphological characteristics, motor and functional abilities (predictor sets) on the athletics program content of physical education (criterion set) of the elementary school students. A sample of 105 respondents was taken from the population of the seventh and eighth grade male students of elementary schools in Nis. 14 measur...

PURPOSE To examine gesture and motor abilities in relation to language in children with language impairment (LI). METHOD Eleven children with LI (aged 2;7 to 6;1 [years;months]) and 16 typically developing (TD) children of similar chronological ages completed 2 picture narration tasks, and their language (rate of verbal utterances, mean length of utterance, and number of different words) and ...