This course includes a comprehensive overview of motor development across the lifespan from infancy through older adulthood. There will be a focus on movement pattern development and the underlying mechanisms that are related to changes in these pathways. This is essential knowledge to understanding how to assist a client in the development and performance of neuromuscular awareness.
Due to COVID 19 this course has been changed to a webinar from 9:00am - 2:00 pm and will now include a home study portion to maintain the course 5 credit value.
Upon completion of the course, students should be able to:
define and discuss key terms, concepts, and theories related to motor development
understand the notion of constraints (individual, environmental, and task)
describe atypical motor development
describe the effects of aging on motor development
apply theoretical knowledge in a real-world setting