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| Preface | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| What Is Motor Development? Theoretical Perspectives | |
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| Descriptive Perspectives | |
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| Definition of Motor Development Study | |
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| History of Motor Development in the United States | |
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| Concept of Development | |
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| Three Early Pioneers of Motor Development | |
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| Stage versus Age | |
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| Physical Educators and Kinesiologists in the Field | |
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| Legacies from the Descriptive Perspectives | |
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| Specific Contributions of the Descriptive Perspectives | |
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| Role of Description within Motor Development Research | |
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| Summary | |
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| Perspectives on Perception and Action | |
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| Indirect Perspective | |
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| Direct Perspective | |
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| A Resolution? | |
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| Summary | |
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| Systems Approach | |
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| Model of Constraints | |
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| Dynamic Systems | |
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| Fundamental Characteristics of Dynamic Systems | |
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| Applying the Dynamic Systems Model to a Motor Development Problem | |
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| Summary | |
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| Motor Development Research Approaches | |
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| Research Designs | |
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| Development Simulation | |
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| Dependent Variables | |
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| Anthropometric Measures | |
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| Moving the Field Forward: Strong Inference Research | |
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| Moving the Field Forward: Wohlwill's Developmental Research Schema | |
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| Research Methods in Practice: Esther Thelen and Reflex Stepping | |
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| Summary | |
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| What Perspectives Do Researchers Use to Study Motor Development? Contemporary Research | |
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| Development of Postural Control | |
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| Theoretical Perspectives | |
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| Early Development | |
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| Rising to Stand | |
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| Postural Control in Older Adulthood | |
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| Summary | |
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| Development of Locomotion | |
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| Intertask Developmental Sequence | |
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| Intratask Developmental Sequences | |
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| Further Study | |
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| Summary | |
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| Development of Ballistic Skills | |
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| Intertask Developmental Sequence | |
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| Intratask Developmental Sequences | |
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| Developmental Research | |
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| Summary | |
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| Development of Manipulative Skills | |
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| Reaching and Grasping | |
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| Interception Skills | |
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| Summary | |
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| How Do Practitioners Adopt a Developmental Perspective? Applying Research | |
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| Atypical Motor Development | |
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| Identifying Atypical Development by Understanding Typical Development | |
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| Motor Development That Is Not Average | |
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| Combining Theory and Practice | |
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| Summary | |
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| Motor Development Interventions | |
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| Interventions in Typically Developing Populations | |
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| Interventions for Atypical Populations | |
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| Interventions for Children With Disabilities | |
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| Summary | |
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| Glossary | |
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| References | |
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| Index | |
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| About the Authors | |