Motor development affected by physical impairments.
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Considering the various types of physical and health impairments, do you believe that certain impairments affect normal motor development more significantly than others?
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This discussion focuses on the following question. Do some physical or health impairments affect normal motor development more than others do? Nearly 300 words of original text along with a couple of links to additional websites for further research.
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Yes, there are some physical and health impairments that are much more devastating to normal motor development.
Consider deafness for example. It is definitely a physical impairment that a student must live with, in many cases, for the rest of his/her life. However, it will not necessarily affect normal motor development. In the last school I taught at we had a boy who had lived the first two years of his life in an orphanage in Brazil. He had ...
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