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Goh, Hui-Ting; Kantak, Shailesh S.; Sullivan, Katherine J. – Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport, 2012
Reduced feedback during practice has been shown to be detrimental to movement accuracy in children but not in young adults. We hypothesized that the reduced accuracy is attributable to reduced movement parameter learning, but not pattern learning, in children. A rapid arm movement task that required the acquisition of a motor pattern scaled to…
Descriptors: Children, Young Adults, Feedback (Response), Accuracy
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Day, Steven M.; Wu, Yvonne W.; Strauss, David J.; Shavelle, Robert M.; Reynolds, Robert J. – Developmental Medicine & Child Neurology, 2007
This study aimed to determine the probability that a child with cerebral palsy (CP) will lose or gain ambulatory ability through adolescence and young adulthood. We analyzed retrospectively data from 1987 to 2002 on Californians with CP initially aged 10 years (SD 0.9y; n=7550 [4304 males, 3246 females]) and 25 years (SD 0.8y; n=5721 [3261 males,…
Descriptors: Children, Adolescents, Cerebral Palsy, Young Adults