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by Jo E. Cowden, PhD, L. Kristi Sayers, MA, and Carol C. Torrey, PhD, 322 pp, with illus, $66.95 (cloth), $53.95 (paper), ISBN 0-398-06848-8 (cloth), ISBN 0-398-06849-6 (paper), Springfield, Ill, Charles C Thomas Publishers Ltd, 1998.

Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med. 1999;153:431.

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Pediatric Adapted Motor Development and Exercise is a textbook written for a very wide audience. It seeks to serve as a resource to professionals, families, and undergraduate and graduate students interested in learning about children with typical, delayed, or disabled motor development. The disciplines targeted by this book include the following: adapted motor development and physical education, special education, early childhood development, early intervention, and allied health. The work that served as the foundation for this book was conducted at the University of New Orleans Pediatric Adapted Motor Development Clinic.

This text is composed of 10 chapters. Each chapter offers a set of objectives to readers, a liberal amount of pictures of children, a bibliography, a glossary, a subject index, and an index of authors cited in the text.

The context of this book comprises 3 functional units: motor development, theory, and biological concomitants; assessment processes; and interventional procedures. The . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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