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Filter by:Developmental Coordination Disorder (DCD) corresponds to a clumsiness, a slowness and an inaccuracy of motor performance. This neurodevelopmental disorder affects 6% of school-aged children, and disturbs daily life activities and academic performances. The etiology of DCD is still unknown. An understanding of this disorder is necessary to improve interventions and therefore quality of life of these people. A deficit of the so-called internal models is the most commonly described hypothesis of DCD. Indeed, children with DCD exhibit difficulties in predictive control. Internal models, useful for motor control, are closely related to the sensory system, as they are elaborated on and constantly fed by sensory feedback. Deficits in sensory performance are described in DCD, mostly in the visual system, which could in turn partly explain poor motor performance. However, visuo-perceptual deficits cannot explain the entire motor difficulties because some activities in daily life, as buttoning a shirt, are often performed without visual control. Although the integrity of proprioceptive and tactile systems is necessary for the building of internal models, and therefore for a stable motor control, these sensory systems have been very little investigated in DCD. Moreover, using a tool is often disturbed in children with DCD. In neurotypical subjects, tool use induces a plasticity of body representation, as reflected by modifications of movement kinematics after tool use. Proprioceptive abilities are necessary for this update of the body schema. Thus, potential deficits of the proprioceptive system in children with DCD could impair the plastic modification of the body schema, and hence of motor performance, when using a tool. The aim of this study is to identify the main cause of the DCD, both by evaluating the tactile and proprioceptive abilities and by assessing the body schema updating abilities in children with DCD. While some daily life activities improve with age, some motor difficulties persist in adults with DCD. To our knowledge, perceptual abilities have never been investigated in adults with DCD and it is thus unknown whether perceptual deficits are still present in adulthood. This information could allow us to understand if motor difficulties in adult DCD are caused by enduring perceptual deficits and/or impaired plasticity of body schema. The second aim of this study is to evaluate abilities of perception and of body schema plasticity in adults with DCD.
By longitudinal, prospective research in children with neurodisabilities including severe motor impairments and their parents to explore the beneficial effects of participating in an intensive habilitation program on the child's adaptive functioning and parental empowerment in order to treat and reduce the consequences of early brain damage.
In this study we will examine the social-communicative skills of children with Developmental Coordination Disorder (DCD) by using online parental questionnaires in children aged 5 to 15y.
This research project aims to examine the impact of motor coordination deficits and the effects of motor intervention on preschool-aged children's perceived competence, health-related physical fitness, activity participation and physical activity. Eighty children, aged 4-6 years,with or without motor coordination deficits will be recruited and assigned to to motor intervention (DCD-t), control 1 (DCD-c) or control 2 (TD) group. Children in the intervention group will receive motor intervention for 12 weeks. All children will be assessed at baseline, 0-, 3- and 6-month post-intervention.
This study is a case-controlled observational study, involving children with Developmental Coordination Disorder (DCD) and typically developing children with an age from 8 up to 12 years old. The study aims to investigate interlimb coordination of the lower limbs and sensorimotor synchronization ability in children with DCD compared to age-matched typically developing children during gait and fundamental lower limb coordination task to 2 metronomes with different temporal structures. The study consists of a maximum of 4 sessions (2 descriptive sessions, 2 experimental sessions), each lasting around 60 minutes. Depending on the preferences of the child and parents, the sessions can be combined in 2 sessions of 2 hours. During the first descriptive session, the participant will perform the m-ABC2 test to assess gross and fine motor function. The MBEMA-s will be used to examine rhythm perception ability. During the second descriptive session, children will perform the Kids BESTest to examine postural control, and two cognitive tests (digit span, go-no/go test) to assess executive functioning. During the third visit (experimental session), interlimb coordination and synchronization will be investigated during three tasks with different dynamic balance demands (seated, walking and running) in three conditions: in silence, to beats in isochronous metronome (discrete structure), to beats in non-isochronous metronomes (sinusoidal structure). In the last experimental session, the tempi of the auditory metronomes will be set at higher and lower tempi than the preferred comfortable tempo of the child.
Barriers to keeping and maintaining fitness as a young person with a disability exist across many domains of access to community locations such as fitness centers, so looking outside of these establishments may be necessary to advance fitness. This study is aimed at piloting a program that would address some of these barriers by hosting a modified after school running program with an underserved population in an accessible way. There is a second option to participate outside of school.
RCT in which 28 children with developmental coordination disorder (DCD) were enrolled and equally distributed into two groups; Participants in control group were treated with conventional physical therapy while experimental were given conventional physical therapy in addition to trampoline exercises. Assessment was at 0, 4 and 8 week using developmental coordination disorder questionnaire (DCDQ), pediatric balance scale (PBS) and peads quality of life (PQL)
The aim is to contribute to the knowledge of the relationship between Motor Neurological Soft Signs (MNSS) and schizophrenia, as well as to point out the implications and recommendations for clinical and rehabilitative practices, in order to contribute to the identification of these signs as potential facilitators of prevention and a better follow-up in the psychosocial rehabilitation processes of the person with schizophrenia.
In this study, aged 6-10 years, male, right hand dominant, diagnosed with ADHD, accepting to take part in the study and applying to the Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Department between October 1, 2018 - October 1, 2019 were included in the research group.As for the control group, boys between 6-10 years of age with no mental symptoms described by their teachers or parents and showing healthy development were selected by convenience sampling method and snow ball method. Height and weight measurements of all the children participated in the study were performed. The sociodemographic data form prepared by the researchers was completed by both the research and the control group families. In the sample, the Corners' Parent Scale- Revised Short Form (CPS-R:SF) was used to evaluate the severity of ADHD symptoms.The hand preferences of all participants in the research and control groups were evaluated with Edinburgh Handedness Inventory.Motor skills were evaluated with the 2nd Version of Bruininsky-Oseretsky Motor Competence Test (BOT-2).Hand skills were evaluated with the 9-Hole Peg Test.Visual perception skills were evaluated with 3rd Version of Visual Perception Test without Motor Ability (MVPT-3). Pediatric Quality of Life Inventory Parent Form were filled by the parents of children in the research and control groups for quality of life. In the study, there are five groups: ADHD, ADHD + Specific learning disorders, ADHD + Oppositional defiant disorder, ADHD + Anxiety Disorder and children with typical development group.
Children with a neurodevelopmental condition called developmental coordination disorder (DCD) struggle to learn motor skills and perform daily activities, such as tying shoelaces, printing, riding a bicycle, or playing sports. Evidence suggests that motor-based interventions combined with non-invasive brain stimulation to the motor cortex (transcranial direct-current stimulation, tDCS) has been effective in improving motor skills in children with cerebral palsy and other neurodevelopmental disorders, but few studies have examined tDCS in chidlren with DCD. The purpose of this randomized, blinded, sham-controlled interventional trial is to explore the effectiveness of anodal tDCS over M1 combined with a motor learning task in increasing motor skill learning in children with DCD.