Sugden and Wade, leading authors in this area, comprehensively cover motor development and motor impairment, drawing on sources in medicine and health-related studies, motor learning and developmental psychology. A theme that runs through the book is that movement outcomes are a complex transaction of child resources, the context in which movement takes place, and the manner in which tasks are presented. The core themes of the book involve descriptions of motor development from conception through to emerging adulthood, explanations of motor development from differing theoretical, empirical, and experiential perspectives, and descriptions and explanations of atypical motor development when the resources of the child are limited in some way.

Chapter 1: An Introduction to Motor Development

Chapter 2: Biological Influences on Developmental Change

Chapter 3: Developmental Models and Theories, Motor Control and Development Theories:

Chapter 4: Early Movement Development: Birth to 24 Months

Chapter 5: Motor Development of Young Children: Two to Seven Years of Age

Chapter 6: A Movement Development of Young Children; Seven Years of Age through Puberty

Chapter 7: Cerebral Palsy: The Condition

Chapter 8: Developmental Co-ordination Disorder

Chapter 9: Children with Intellectual Disability

Chapter 10: Motor Development in Children with Other Developmental Disorders

Chapter 11: Children with Visual Impairment

Chapter 12: Assessment and Intervention for Children with Movement Difficulties

Chapter 13: Perspectives on Development: Typical and Atypical