The Measurement of Motility in Children

Authors

Lillian Tow

Document Type

Research

Abstract

What we expect and demand in discipline and performance at each age should depend upon a child's development, mental, physical, and functional. In this laboratory the evaluation for scientific and diagnostic purposes of motor rather than mental capacities is being stressed. The object of this investigation is to find what the motor equipment of children is on entering school. The discovery of the basic motor tests which applied at five and six years of age will give results which are reliable and significant in that they throw light on motor ability. Previous investigations on young children have had for their fundamental purpose the comparison of mental and motor traits. The aim of this study is to investigate the responses of as many different sets of muscles as possible and to compare these responses one with another to see if the nature of one is an index to a corresponding nature in another.

Publication Date

1920

Journal Title

Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Science

Volume

27

Issue

1

First Page

235

Last Page

236

Copyright

©1920 Iowa Academy of Science, Inc.

Language

en

File Format

application/pdf

Recommended Citation

Tow, Lillian (1920) "The Measurement of Motility in Children," Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Science, 27(1), 235-236.
Available at: https://scholarworks.uni.edu/pias/vol27/iss1/46