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Mind and body - motor skills
By Sally goddard Blythe,
Nursery World,
15 June 2000
When a child starts formal schooling, it is assumed that he or she will be able to sit still, pay attention, manipulate a writing instrument and control the eye movements necessary to follow a line of print. But these abilities depend upon the maturity of the motor system the system of nerves in the brain and spinal cord which sends impulses to the muscles causing movement.
When a child starts formal schooling, it is assumed that he or she will be able to sit still, pay attention, manipulate a writing instrument and control the eye movements necessary to follow a...
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