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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"Fine motor skill"”.
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Improving Reading through Fine Motor Skill Development in First Grade
… was to determine if an intervention to enhance fine motor skills to a select group of students in one class room increased their reading abilities. This was a mixed methods research study which assessed the quantitative data from the running record assessments, and the qualitative data taken by …
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ColloGraphy: Designing Augmented Visual-Haptic Feedback Systems to Support Fine Motor Skill Learning
Learning motor skills is an essential part of our daily lives. However, certain activities can be challenging to comprehend through observation alone, especially for beginners. Specifically, this thesis focuses on Chinese calligraphy writing as an example of a complex, fine motor task, in which …
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Crawling Pattern Movement Effects on Fine Motor Skills among Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder
… been diagnosed within the ASD show a lack in fine motor skills when compared to the general population. The purpose of this project was to test the effects of a crawling program on the fine motor skills of children (ages 7-19) with ASD. A partial lag design approach was used in order to test …
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A Parent Involvement Program Focusing on Fine Motor and Language Development and its Effect on Parent Participation at Home
… However, when children come to school lacking fine motor, language development skills, and exposure to literature, they are at a disadvantage. Fine motor skills are necessary for writing and drawing, while exposure to language and literature is essential for reading skills and social …
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Influence of mild dehydration on perception of effort and execution of golf and mental concentration tests in female collegiate golfers
… sports, such as golf, is less certain given that fine motor skill sports have received less attention in the literature and that existing research on dehydration and golfers is largely limited to males. In this randomized, controlled, crossover pilot experiment, elite female golfers on the …
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Understanding the operatic tenor's legitimate head voice: A comparative study of historical and modern pedagogical approaches
… coupled with the development of the necessary fine motor skill to maintain balanced adduction of the top and bottom edges of the vocal folds at high pitches. If this view is correct, it would have important implications for tenor training methods, in particular the practice of register-blending …
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Behavioral and Functional Brain Correlates of Developmental Coordination Disorder: A Case-Control Study
<p>completing fine motor skills involved in activities of daily living (ADLs). The primary purpose of this study was to establish neural markers of fine-motor skill impairment in children with DCD. Following a formal assessment of both fine and gross motor skills, we used MRI (magnetic resonance …
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Visual perception and motor function of children with birth-weights under 1250grams and their full term normal birth weight peers at five to six years of age : a Cape Town study
… assess and compare the visual perceptual, visual motor integration and motor abilities of infants weighing less than 1250 grams at birth and a matched group of normal full birth weight controls at the age of five to six years. The group of infants with birth weights below 1250 grams were born …
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Understanding Hand Interactions and Mid-Air Haptic Responses within Virtual Reality and Beyond.
… input and haptic modalities within two different fine motor skill tasks. These studies are coupled with the development and implementation of a real-time user study recording toolkit, allowing for significantly heightened user analysis and visual evaluation of interactions. Results from these …
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Diagnosis of underlying physical fitness trait of adults’ selfreported physical function
… flexibility, aerobic endurance, balance, and fine motor skill. This study contributes to exercise intervention and program design by paying attention to stressing the importance of physical fitness diagnoses.
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From Music to Medicine: Transfer of Motor Skills from Piano Performance to Laparoscopic Surgery
Background: Due to the deficit of knowledge on fine motor skill far transfer from one domain of expertise to another, piano performance and surgical training serve as a relevant, interdisciplinary context in which to study the transfer of motor skills given both have relatively well-established …
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Does Speech-To-Text Assistive Technology Improve the Written Expression of Students with Traumatic Brain Injury?
… moderate to severe TBIs. Issues with sensory and motor skills, language, auditory or visual sensation changes, and variations in emotional behavior may also be present. Germane to this study, motor dysfunction is a common long-term sequelae of TBI that manifests in academic difficulties. Borrowing …