Divergent development of gross motor skills in children who are blind or sighted

Journal of Visual Impairment and Blindness

Volumn 100, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 620-634

  Brambring, Michael ^a  

^a BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLINDNESS; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MOTOR DEVELOPMENT; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; ONSET AGE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; VISION; VISUOMOTOR COORDINATION;

EID: 33750840510     PISSN: 0145482X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0145482x0610001014     Document Type: Article

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