Environmental influences on perceptual and motor skills of children from immigrant Ethiopian families

Perceptual and Motor Skills

Volumn 90, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 587-594

  Rosenblum, Sarah ^b   Katz, Noomi ^b   Hahn Markowitz, Jeri ^b   Mazor Karsenty, Tal ^b   Parush, Shula ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CULTURAL FACTOR; ETHIOPIA; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; ISRAEL; JEW; MALE; MIGRATION; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; STATISTICS;

AGE FACTORS; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; ETHIOPIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; ISRAEL; JEWS; MALE; MOTOR SKILLS; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT;

EID: 0034170944     PISSN: 00315125     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2466/pms.2000.90.2.587     Document Type: Article

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