Section 1 Postural Control -- Postural Control and Development -- The Development of Proprioceptive Control -- Postural Control -- Section 2 Skill Development and Learning Disabilities -- Some Aspects of the Development of Motor Control in Down's Syndrome -- The Trainability of Motor Processing Strategies with Developmentally Delayed Performers -- Motor Dysfunctions in Children. Towards a Process-Oriented Diagnosis -- Information Processing and Motivation as Determinants of Performance in Children with Learning Disabilities -- Development of Coordination and Control in the Mentally Handicapped -- Manual Language: Its Relevance to Communication Acquisition in Autistic Children -- Section 3 The Development of Fine Motor Skills -- The Formation of the Finger Grip during Prehension a Cortically-Mediated Visuo-Motor Pattern -- Handwriting Disturbances: Developmental Trends -- Section 4 Perceptual and Cognitive Control of Motor Behaviour -- Normal and Abnormal Repetitive Stereotyped Behaviours -- Inhibitory Mechanisms in Children's Skill Development -- Sensory-Motor Control and Balance: A Behavioural Perspective -- Section 5 Posture and Locomotion -- From Stepping to Adaptive Walking: Modulations of an Automatism -- Developmental Changes in the Relative Timing of Locomotion -- Section 6 Cultural Influences -- Motor Development and Cultural Attitudes -- The Acquisition of an Everyday Technical Motor Skill: The Pounding of Cereals in Mali -- Section 7 Speech & Language -- Parallels between Motor and Language Development -- Lateralisation and Motor Development -- Author Index.