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motor development
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Coordination (Motor Control)Coordination (Systems Engineering)Interaction DynamicsSynchrony
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Neurodevelopmental Assessment Paradigm
1962 - 1968
The period crystallized a model of motor development that combines standardized neuromotor assessment with a direct link to functional milestones and reflex integration. It also introduced early therapeutic perspectives on cerebral palsy and cognitive-motor learning, highlighting the role of perception, rhythm, and mental rehearsal in skill acquisition, shaping pediatric assessment and intervention. Historical Significance: These advances reoriented pediatric neuromotor research toward early detection and intervention, embedding standardized examination within routine clinical practice and early rehabilitation paradigms. They established a legacy of integrating motor, perceptual, and cognitive factors, and influenced later cross-disciplinary approaches to motor development, learning, and autism-related motor behaviors.
• Systematic neuromotor assessment and standardization of pediatric motor examination across infancy and early childhood, emphasizing functional milestones and reflex integration to separate typical development from impairment [1], [13], [15], [4].
• Early reflexes and maturation as foundational drivers of motor development: Landau, Babkin and newborn motor studies, with neurophysiological and kinematic implications for maturation [19], [17], [15], [18].
• Motor disorders and atypical development: choreiform or apraxic/agnosic variants and autistic motor behaviors, emphasizing motor signs as diagnostic markers and developmental trajectories [7], [11], [14], [12], [10].
• Perceptual-motor development and cognition/education: sex differences, perceptual-motor ability vs intellect, and motor learning as it relates to educational assessment [5], [3], [6].
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