Development level of coordination skills in elementary school pupils

Abstract

The degree of motor skills manifestation changes with age. To put it simply, three periods of development may be found: a growth phase in childhood and adolescence, a “plateau” phase, and a decrease phase in adulthood. Individual development exhibits, as specialised literature noticed and described, sensitive and critical periods. Sensitive periods are characterised by the more intense response of the body to external stimuli in certain periods. In return, critical periods are seen either as a phase when it is necessary to apply certain stimuli to reach well determined development effects, or as a stagnation, if not plain involution phase.