motor development
collocation in Englishmeaningsofmotoranddevelopment
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motor
adjective[before noun]
uk/ˈməʊ.tər/us/ˈmoʊ.t̬ɚ/
mainly UK
connected with cars or other vehicles that have engines and ...
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development
noun
uk/dɪˈvel.əp.mənt/us/dɪˈvel.əp.mənt/
the process in which someone or something grows or changes and becomes ...
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(Definition ofmotoranddevelopmentfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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With an infant, parents were told to let the baby play regularly on the floor level for stimulation and enhancement ofmotordevelopment.
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Through explaining the local options for baby swimming, public health nurses tried to activatemotordevelopment.
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She had repeated aspiration pneumonias and slow growth in spite of a gastrostomy for feeding, and she had difficulty with both verbal andmotordevelopment.
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Large differences could be observed with respect tomotordevelopment.
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Another importantmotordevelopmentis the ability to inhibit movement.
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The public health nurses told that they spoke, for example, about the importance of close physical contact to enhancemotordevelopment.
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Typically,motordevelopmentappears as a sequence of postural milestones - sitting, crawling, and walking.
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Assessments of cognitive andmotordevelopmentare also conducted at each age.
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Supplementation and stimulation produced independent benefits to the children's mental andmotordevelopment.
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During infancy, the age-appropriatemotordevelopmentwas assessed closely, starting from the first home visit at the age of two weeks.
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However, there seems to be no significant effect of age, gender, and othermotordevelopment(like smiling or crawling) on the onset of babbling.
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The literature on children'smotordevelopmentsuggests extralinguistic factors may play a role in signing children's articulation of different types of signs.
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The available evidence therefore indicates a normal relationship between speech production andmotordevelopment.
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By focussing on the motor aspects of cognition, the authors are able to bring insights to bear on the problem of cognitive development that are drawn frommotordevelopment.
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Alternatively, it could be an authentic phenomenon, analogous to the observation thatmotordevelopmentis in many ways more advanced in adult animals than in immature humans.
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Delayedmotordevelopment, most often to mild degree, was found in seven children, while six had attention problems.
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These guidelines stress the importance of age-specificmotordevelopmentand motor skills as a basis for healthy growth and development of children from early infancy onwards.
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