This course is designed to improve student physical therapists' understanding, critical evaluation, and integration of research and intervention approaches toward pediatric physical therapy clinical practice. The readings, class discussion, and in-class activities will focus on increasing students' understanding of typical and atypical development and how factors related to growth and development interplay to facilitate or alter this process. We will apply theoretical principles of motor control and neurologic development to enhance understanding of typical motor development and explore the relationship of these processes to atypical movement in children with various diagnoses.