Motor Characteristics of the Mentally Retarded, Volume 35005[U.S.] Office of Education, 1960 - 40 páginas |
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Motor Characteristics of the Mentally Retarded, Edições 1-9 Robert Jay Francis,George Lawrence Rarick Visualização integral - 1960 |
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35-yard dash age and sex age level agility run approximately balance beam boys and girls Boys Girls Mean BOYS NORMAL GIRLS BOYS RETARDED GIRLS Burpee Test Chippewa Falls correlations Data on normal deviation deviation deviation Dynamic Strength event formance girls adapted Girls Mean Standard GIRLS RETARDED BOYS grip strength gross motor inches institutionalized children intercorrelations investigation IQ range Jones 12 kilograms manual strength McCloy Mean and standard Mean Standard deviation Mean Standard Mean mental age mentally defective mentally retarded boys mentally retarded children mentally retarded girls mongoloid children motor abilities motor characteristics motor functions motor performance tests motor proficiency motor tests normal 5-year-old normal and mentally NORMAL BOYS NORMAL normal children NORMAL GIRLS RETARDED normative data nursery school children pull and thrust reliability coefficients RETARDED BOYS RETARDED running speed sample sex trends squat thrusts standard deviation____ Standard Mean Standard standing broad jump supine position thrusting strength vertical jump
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Página 39 - Ability in the standing broad jump of elementary school children 7, 9, and 11 years of age.
Página 37 - ... child Is greater than had been previously supposed. Their motor abilities are organized in much the same way as normal children and their development of these abilities is similar in growth pattern to normal children but at a lower level. These factors suggest that educable mentally retarded children...
Página 39 - Coleman, James W. The differential measurement of the speed factor in large muscle activities.
Página 6 - ... touched in the jump was taken as the measure of the vertical jump. Three jumps were given, the best effort being used as the subject's score. The standing broad jump was administered on the gymnasium floor, the distance between the take-off mark and the landing point of the heel nearest the take-off mark was used as the distance jumped. The best of the three jumps was taken as each subject's score. In the throw for distance a tennis ball was used for the eight and nineyear-olds and a standard...
Página 5 - Balance beam ( 1 0 ft) 5. Agility: a. Burpee Test (squat thrusts) b. Agility run Description of tests and testing procedures All children were tested individually on each event although 10 to 15 children were brought into the testing area together. Fatigue was reduced by testing all members of the groups on one item before moving to the next.
Página 5 - ... together. Fatigue was reduced by testing all members of the group on one item before moving to the next. In most instances all tests were given to a particular child on one day. Measures of Static Strength. A Stoetling hand dynamometer was used in testing the strength of grip of the right and left hand and a manuometer of the rectangular type inserted in the frame of a push-pull attachment was employed for measuring the strength of pull and thrust. For all static strength measures the procedures...
Página 1 - Madison and Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The more specific purposes of the study were: 1. To determine age and sex trends in certain gross motor abilities of mentally retarded children. 2. To compare the motor achievement levels of the mentally retarded with normative data on normal children. 3. To determine if the interrelationships among gross motor functions of the mentally retarded are different than the interrelationships among those traits of children of normal intelligence. 4. To determine the extent...
Página 36 - ... throw for accuracy. In one study (21), for example, retarded boys were able to balance on one foot for an average of only 22 seconds; normal boys for 51 seconds. In another study (13), it was reported that the mean scores of a group of upper-range mentally retarded children were, on most measures, 2 to 4 years behind the published age norms of normal children. The above data apply to the upper range of the retarded. Although similar data for the middle group have not as yet appeared, there is...