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Original Article

Top-down and bottom-up approaches to motor skill assessment of children: Are child-report and parent-report perceptions predictive of children's performance-based assessment results?

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Pages 45-53 | Received 10 Sep 2011, Accepted 10 May 2012, Published online: 31 May 2012

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