Motor Development
- 15 January 2006
- book chapter
- Published by Wiley
Abstract
Motor development refers to changes in children's ability to control their body's movements, from infants' first spontaneous waving and kicking movements to the adaptive control of reaching, locomotion, and complex sport skills.Keywords
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