Relation of infants' weight and body build to locomotor development.

Abstract

1 Since the preparation of this article, Dr. Wayne Dennis has kindly lent the authors a copy of his paper on walking, which he presented at the Eighth American Scientific Congress (xgdo), to be published in the Am. J. Dis. Child ( I ) . He analyzed the onset of walking in 25 puberty praecox cases and found the average and range of their walking ages to be entirely normal. Thus there appears to 234 This document is copyrighted by the American Psychological Association or one of its allied publishers.This article is intended solely for the personal use of the individual user and is not to be disseminated broadly.

On the possibility of advancing and retarding the motor development of infants.

“…Certain evidence presented by Peatman and Higgons (23,24) might seem contrary to this conclusion. These authors studied the motor development of a total of 349 infants who received exceptionally good pediatric care, whose health records were excellent, and whose growth rate was above the standard norms.…”

Chapter II: Motor Development from Birth to Maturity

“…Jokl and Cluver (36) reported a number of athletes who have had serious physical deficiencies but have compensated for them and made outstanding records. Peatman and Higgins (51) found no re lation between body build and age at sitting, standing, and walking alone in a group of 349 healthy infants. Weech and Campbell (62), however, found that when rates of growth are studied, the "infant who is expanding rapidly in physical size develops .…”

Physical growth.

“…Infancy and early childhood Woodbury (1921); Freeman (1933); Bayley and Davis (1935); Bayley (1936): Bakwin and Bakwin (1936); Gesell and Thompson (1938); Peatman and Higgons (1938); Davenport (1938); Boyd (1941); Robinow (1942).…”