Development Of Motor Control In Children And Adolescents
In everyday life, we use thousands of movements to navigate through our world. Rarely do we take the time to analyze where these movements come from, or how they are executed on a neuromotor level. Perhaps even less often do we contemplate how these movements have changed with age. Any mother can certainly tell you that she expects to aid her infant by holding its' bottle during feeding at first. However, at one year of age, that same mother would certainly show serious concern if her child could not yet hold a bottle on its own. Motor development (consisting of similar reach-to-grasp movements, goal-directed movements, proprioceptive sensitivity, and even neuromotor development in general) continues to develop throughout childhood and adolescence. Several studies have been done to evaluate at what age certain abilities develop, and also at what age they improve in accuracy.
In a study by Largo, Caflisch and Hug (2001), children between the ages of 5 and 18 years were timed......
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