21180 - Motor Development (B)

Learning outcomes

At the end of the course the student has to know the main models regarding the interpretation of the motor development, to know the motor behavior of the child and its variability, to recognize the adattive functions put in action for the birth, for the survival, for the social, for the motoria and visual exploration, to know and to be able to describe the meaning of posture and movement.

Course contents

1. The development of the child according to various schools of thought:

Adultcentred Model of: The child in history, in religion, in art, in literature and in medicine
Statistical model. The “Milani-Gidoni scale”
Analytical model. Programmed Genetically functions. Modular functions. The ontogenetic recapitulation of phylogeny. The development of relations and adaptive functions
2. The need and function
What is a need and a function?

Architecture of functions
The organizers. The tracers. The appointments
Relationship between repertoire and use in healthy children
3. The preparation for birth
The need for the morphogenesis of the presentation of foetus
The need to pass through birthing channel
4. The survival functions

The need to breathe, to feed, to defend, to contain
5. Posture
The development of postural control
The development of the sitting posture
6. To the discovery of the world
The child comes into contact with the world and provides its the space coordinates
The horizontal and vertical movement
7. To the discovery of the object
The hand satisfies the need to feel, to comfort, to move, to explore, to know, to "use" objects, to communicate and to defend himself.

 

 

Readings/Bibliography

Pikler, E. 1973. Some contributions to the study of gross motor development of children. In Child and adolescent development, ed. A. Sandovsky, 52–64. New York: Free Press.

 

Vincze M. Genesis of the empathy in the young child-The joy of being together-Pikler Institute – Budapest http://www.aipl.org/page1-A.html

 

Pikler E. The competence of the infant
http://www.aipl.org/page1-A.html

Teaching methods

Short lectures
Work in small groups

Assessment methods

Written examination with ten closed answers and one open answer

Teaching tools

PC and Projector

Links to further information

http://www.webmed.unibo.it/cdl_fisioterapia/

Office hours

See the website of Lucia Bertozzi