Human Motor Development

Human Motor Development: A Lifespan Approach, 10th Edition, offers an overview to the study of changes in human movement across the lifespan. The book uses a holistic approach and emphasizes the importance of intellectual, social, and physical development and their impact on human motor development at all ages.

The tenth edition has been completely revised and updated to reflect the most recent research and technology in human motor development. Organized into five parts, the book examines key topics in motor development including the relationship between cognitive and social development and motor development, factors affecting development, changes across the lifespan, and assessment in motor development.

Highly illustrated and written for student accessibility, Human Motor Development: A Lifespan Approach is essential reading for students of motor control and development, kinesiology, human performance, and students interested in physical therapy, physical education, and exercise science. The book also provides access to a fully updated companion website, which includes laboratory exercises, an instructors? manual, a test bank, and lecture slides.

Human Motor Development: A Lifespan Approach takes an applied approach to examining fundamental movement skill acquisition leading up to childhood and provides relatable examples on how all domains of human development impact further development and/or inhibit development of movement skills across the lifespan. The textbook provides a foundation of understanding that can be utilized by undergraduate students pursuing professions in physical therapy, occupational, physical education, applied behaviour analysis, etc.

Human Motor Development: A Lifespan Approach explores motor development as it relates to the other domains of human development ? and it is the only book to do that! It is key to understanding how humans learn how to move in the context of their general development, and the importance of movement across the lifespan.