Goals

• To provide a unique service to children, their families, teachers and other professionals in local and state communities:
  
  • Diagnostic Services
  • Individual and Group Enrichment Programs
  • Home Enrichment Activities
  • Support for Community Programs
• To enhance and support the education of pre-professionals (undergraduate and graduate students)
• To contribute to the continuing education of active professionals
• To maintain a position on the cutting edge of issues in research on:
  
  • children's motor development
  • childhood physical activity

Laboratory Facilities

PMD is housed in The PERCEPTUAL MOTOR DEVELOPMENT LABORATORY on the USC-Columbia Campus in the Blatt P.E. Center

• Specially designed rooms for diagnostics
• Large and medium size rooms for large muscle/gross motor activities
• Smaller rooms for enrichment of fine motor skills
• Small rooms for promoting visual perception & body awareness behaviors
• Office space for lab staff, lab director and student clinicians
• Parent’s reception area and resource room
• Area for computer-based games/activities for fine motor development, memory and other learning skills
• Computers, printers, video recording and viewing equipment