Building the foundations: Skill acquisition in children

Motor Learning in Practice: A Constraints-Led Approach

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 33-44

  Renshaw, Ian ^a  

^a QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203888100     Document Type: Chapter

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