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by WILLIAM S. LANGFORD, M.D. Director of Pediatric Psychiatry and the Language Disorder Clinic, Babies Hospital, New York City I think we are all familiar with the fact that some children have more grace and fluidityin their motor activities than others. Some have practically none and then, at the other extreme of the scale, we find that well-coordinated youngster who is the delight of every athletic coach. Most of us are probably somewhere in between and the problem comes up: when is an awkward child really awkward and when is it just in the eye of the beholder. All children show clumsiness at one time or another. You see this represented in the developmental stages: for example, the child in his second year who is in the endlessly repetitive stage of motor activity, walking, climb- ing, standing and sitting, as he develops some skills and some mastery of his own body. Certainly this child is much less well ordered and skilled in his motor activities than the child of slightly older age but this is the kind of maturatiena;l process that goes onnormally and the capacity to [earn new things and to learn new acts easily is a function
Annals of Dyslexia – Springer Journals
Published: Dec 1, 1955
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