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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"Manual dexterity"”.
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Effect of game activities on manual dexterity in older adults
… was to examine the effects of game activities on manual dexterity performance iri older adults. Seventeen participants (mean age 84.3 years) from local assisted- and independent-living retirement communities were randomly assigned to an experimental or control group. Experimental group …
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A Training Program to Develop Specific Manual Dexterity Skills of Down’s Syndrome Children
… Syndrome children functioning below average in manual dexterity skills could be improved through a systematic training program. The selected subjects were met individually for thirty minutes a day, four days per week (Monday through Thursday), for a period of seven weeks. Each child was trained …
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Object Manipulation During Development
… with practice and with age. The development of manual dexterity is important for several critical motor milestones in childhood and has a huge impact on self-care and learning tasks. Moreover, manual dexterity development is interrelated with cognitive development and underscores the importance …
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The relationship between stroke intensity of words and typewritability
… Studies have established the fact that manual dexterity, reading ability and intelligence influence the ability of the student to attain the speed and accuracy necessary to operate the machine at maximum efficiency.
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Carry-over effect of a handwriting readiness program on handwriting-related skills of children the year following intervention
… Subtest, Fine Motor Integration Subtest, Manual Dexterity Subtest, and Upper-Limb Coordination Subtest of the BOT-2. The independent variable was the handwriting instruction program in which the child participated during the initial study. Data analysis indicated that children who …
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Investigating the effectiveness of a gymnastics intervention on motor skills and balance of children ages 5-9 with autism spectrum disorder
… groups following the intervention. In addition, manual dexterity significantly improved for the fine motor group following the intervention (p=0.03). The results also indicated small improvements in some sections of the balance assessment for both groups following the intervention. The results of …
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Effects of Chemical Protective Clothing on Task Performance using Wearable Input Devices
… shown that protective clothing interferes with manual materials handling tasks, medical tasks, and manual dexterity tasks. However, little information exists regarding how protective clothing affects task performance with wearable input devices. As a result, a study was conducted to address this …
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Perfil funcional e sensorial de crianças com autismo: implicações para a terapia ocupacional
… of different sensory stimuli as the skills of manual dexterity. Thus, when dealing with this population it is necessary that the Occupational Therapist include more specific assessment of motor and process skills protocols so you can get the most complete listing of these children.
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Long-term outcome following severe and very severe closed head injury during childhood
… duration is linked with long-term impairment in manual dexterity, motor-speed and precision, visuographic functioning and language production. It is suggested that post-traumatic amnesia of less than one week is linked with impaired motor-speed and precision and deficient language production. The …
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Robotic symbionts : exploring integrated human-machine action and expression
… extra-numerary finger robots for increasing manual dexterity, a series of collaborative human-drone drawing systems enabling novel expressive capability, and a series of semi-automated guitar systems enabling extended musical expression as well as new instrument-learning opportunities. The …
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The Ape Ecological Niche: Posture and Hand Use in Gibbons and Macaques and the Influence of Manual Skill on Cognitive Development in Apes and Humans
… focusing on their positional behaviour and manual skill. Results support the hypothesis that gibbons exhibit a unique feeding style associated with their orthogrady/suspensory postures in comparison with pronograde macaques. This was demonstrated by their increased access to food in the …
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The effect of subconcussive blows on fine motor control
… respectively. There was no difference in finger dexterity as performances on the Purdue peg board test were equal. Athletes are at higher risk for head injury than non-athletes and several of these athletes may have sustained a concussion and not reported it. Finger speed and isometric force …
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Phenotypic variation and thermoregulation of the human hand
… constrained by both integration and functional dexterity, phenotypic variation in hand and digit proportions across human populations shows broad ecogeographic patterns. These patterns have been associated with climate adaptation. However, the theory linking climate adaptation to such …
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The long term effects of concussion on fine motor control
Concussion has been shown to cause immediate impairment in neurocognitive function and motor control. A widely accepted recovery time from concussion is 7-10 days. However, late life health issues and evidence of chronic inflammatory scar tissue buildup in the brain have been linked to repeated …
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Specific connectivity and molecular diversity of mouse rubrospinal neurons
… that rodents have a greater degree of manual dexterity than was previously thought has evoked renewed interest in the role of direct supraspinal projections in other mammalian species. Lesion studies in the rodent indicated that, of the two major supraspinal pathways involved in the …