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Florence Valade; Marie-Julie Béliveau; Chantale Breault; Fannie Labelle – Early Child Development and Care, 2024
This study examines the reliability of parental concern (PC) as an indicator for mental disorders in preschool-aged children in a clinical setting, aiming to establish sensitivity and specificity, evaluate PC's predictive value for specific diagnoses, and explore the influence of child age on predictions. The sample comprises 574 children referred…
Descriptors: Mental Disorders, Identification, Psychiatry, Clinical Diagnosis
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Bremer, Emily; Lloyd, Meghann – Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, 2021
This study examined whether adaptive behaviour, emotional and behavioural challenges, and social skills, respectively, moderated the effect of a movement skill intervention on movement skills among preschool aged children with autism spectrum disorder. Twenty-seven participants with autism spectrum disorder (N = 13 experimental) between 3 and 5…
Descriptors: Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Behavior Problems, Emotional Problems
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Chen, Yu-Wei; Tseng, Mei-Hui; Hu, Fu-Chang; Cermak, Sharon A. – Research in Developmental Disabilities: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2009
This study examined the consistency between the findings of developmental coordination disorder (DCD) as identified by the Bruininks-Oseretsky Test of Motor Proficiency (BOTMP) and the Movement Assessment Battery for Children (MABC), and explored the psychosocial and attention characteristics of children with DCD identified by the two motor tests,…
Descriptors: Withdrawal (Psychology), Motor Development, Psychomotor Skills, Developmental Disabilities
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Niemeijer, A. S.; Smits-Engelsman, B. C. M.; Schoemaker, M. M. – Developmental Medicine & Child Neurology, 2007
The aim of this study was to evaluate neuromotor task training (NTT), a recently developed child-centred and task-oriented treatment programme for children with developmental coordination disorder (DCD). A treatment and a non-treatment control group of children with DCD were included. Children were selected if they scored below the 15th centile on…
Descriptors: Intervention, Females, Psychomotor Skills, Motor Development