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Lifestyles 'delay movement'
By Laura Marcus,
Nursery World,
9 January 2008
Three-year-olds are having problems walking in a straight line and side-stepping because of less active lifestyles, according to an educational psychologist.
Dr Madeleine Portwood conducted assessments of 400 three- to three-and-a-half-year-olds in Durham after noticing more children being referred to her movement difficulties service by Durham County Council. She found that 57 per cent did not achieve the expected levels of movement skills for their age. Dr Portwood said, 'We found some children were more than six months behind where they should be developmentally. They had difficulty balancing, they couldn't stand on one foot, couldn't run in a straight line....
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