The Physical Fitness and Motor Performance of Educable Mentally Retarded Children
- 1 March 1970
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Exceptional Children
- Vol. 36 (7) , 509-519
- https://doi.org/10.1177/001440297003600704
Abstract
A modification of the AAHPER Youth Physical Fitness Test was administered to a national sample of 4,235 educable retarded boys and girls, ages 8 to 18 years. Age changes in performance followed essentially the same trends as in normal children, although the retarded of both sexes were substantially behind standards on normal children. Sex differences in performance of the retarded were similar to those noted in normal children, the boys showing superiority in all tests at all ages. Inter correlations among the test items were low for both sexes at all age levels and of approximately the same magnitude as in children of normal intelligence.This publication has 3 references indexed in Scilit:
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- The Correlation of Intelligence Scores and Chronological Age from Early to Late MaturityThe American Journal of Psychology, 1932