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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"motor difficulties"”.
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Visuomotor adaptation in young adults with and without motor difficulties
… Coordination Disorders (DCD) have shown motor learning deficits in visuomotor adaptation tasks, and the failure of detecting errors seems to be the key that impedes motor learning. Recent studies suggested that presenting larger feedback improves the rate and extent of motor learning in …
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Behaviour and social functioning in children with developmental coordination disorder
… (DCD), to provide clarification of patterns of difficulties, and to examine how they relate to the diagnostic criteria of an Autistic Spectrum Disorder. Children aged between 6 and 12 years were recruited to the study from three sources: a neurodevelopmental assessment clinic, the Dyspraxia …
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The effect of a reflex replication program on retained primary reflexes, motor coordination, vocabulary, visual motor ability and rapid naming in preprimary aged children
… neck reflexes in young children, can result in difficulties that affect the overall functioning of the child. The retainment of reflexes may lead to clumsiness, poor eye hand coordination, poor manipulative skills and consequently academic achievement may be compromised in some children (Sugden …
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Emerging adulthood and developmental co-ordination disorder
… of emerging adulthood in young adults with motor co-ordination difficulties from both a parental and personal perspective using a mixed method approach. A number of studies over the past twenty years have considered longer term outcomes in children with Developmental Co-ordination Disorder …
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Executive Function in Children With and Without Developmental Coordination Disorder
… Developmental Coordination Disorder (DCD) have motor difficulties which impact their everyday activities. Difficulties with Executive Function (EF) are commonly reported with relationships between EF and motor skills poorly understood. A key component of EF is Inhibition, important for classroom …
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Children with Dyslexia: Spelling as a Constraint on Writing Development
… memory, narrative writing, vocabulary level, motor skill, and handwriting performance. A digital writing tablet was used to record and identify the temporal characteristics of handwriting. Results. Children with dyslexia scored significantly below their peers for written text quality, wrote …
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Clinical profile of children with Autism Spectrum Disorder in a developmental clinic in Western Cape
… behaviour reported, 25% had associated motor difficulty and 10% comorbid epilepsy. More than half of participants (53%) required substantial support in day-to-day activities. Most participants (81%) were administered module 1 of the ADOS-2 reflecting the high proportion of children in …
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Physical Activity and Fitness in Children with Developmental Disorder
… is a prevalent condition characterized by poor motor proficiency that interferes with a child‟s activities of daily living. Children with DCD often experience compromised health-related fitness components such as cardiorespiratory fitness (CRF). Purpose: To better understand the physical …
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The effectiveness of a multisensory writing program in improving cursive writing ability in children with sensorimotor difficulties
… to ten percent of children experience sensory motor difficulties that result in various learnlng disabilitiies , among them. inabllity to output Information on paper in the appropriate manner (Ayres ,1985). The relationship between sensorimotorabillty and handwriting is well documented in the …
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Childhood outcomes in children at risk of neonatal hypoglycaemia
… out on screening. In addition, assessment of motor function at 2 years was not predictive of motor difficulties at 4.5 years. We found that treatment of neonatal hypoglycaemia was associated with different glycaemic responses in the six hour period after hypoglycaemia, and the rate of change …
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Kaniterapijos taikymas kineziterapijoje dirbant su vaikais, turinčiais autizmo spektro sutrikimą, poveikis psichomotorinei vaiko raidai: išplėstinė literatūros apžvalga /
… WITH AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDER: IMPACT ON PSYCHOMOTOR DEVELOPMENT: A EXTENDED LITERATURE REVIEW Physiotherapy Bachelor's Thesis The Author: Orinta Baranauskaitė Academic supervisor: lect. Milda Serbentavičiūtė Keywords: autism spectrum disorder; animal therapy; canine therapy; psychomotor …
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Assessing type 2 diabetes associated NeuroCognitive impairment using an e-screening tool in a South African population
… assessment (commonly due to eyesight, hearing or motor difficulties e.g. hemiplegia due to previous stroke or technical difficulties.) We found differences in the scores in some but not all the neuropsychological tests. Using cut points suggested by an earlier validation study of NeuroScreen tool …
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Movement programmes to enhance motor competence and physical fitness among high school girls in a low-income community of Cape Town, South Africa
Although motor skills, physical fitness and self-efficacy are considered important agents in promoting health and well-being, there is limited research on how exercise can be used to enhance these factors in children within the South African context, particularly among those living in low …