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Westendorp, Marieke; Hartman, Esther; Houwen, Suzanne; Smith, Joanne; Visscher, Chris – Research in Developmental Disabilities: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2011
The present study compared the gross motor skills of 7- to 12-year-old children with learning disabilities (n = 104) with those of age-matched typically developing children (n = 104) using the Test of Gross Motor Development-2. Additionally, the specific relationships between subsets of gross motor skills and academic performance in reading,…
Descriptors: Learning Disabilities, Psychomotor Skills, Motor Development, Academic Ability
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Houwen, Suzanne; Hartman, Esther; Visscher, Chris – Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport, 2010
This study compares the motor skills and physical fitness of school-age children (6-12 years) with visual impairments (VI; n = 60) and sighted children (n = 60). The relationships between the performance parameters and the children's body composition are investigated as well as the role of the severity of the impairment. The degree of VI did not…
Descriptors: Obesity, Body Composition, Visual Impairments, Physical Fitness
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Visscher, Chris; Houwen, Suzanne; Moolenaar, Ben; Lyons, Jim; Scherder, Erik J. A.; Hartman, Esther – Developmental Medicine & Child Neurology, 2010
Aim: This study compared the gross motor skills of school-age children (mean age 7y 8mo, range 6-9y) with developmental speech and language disorders (DSLDs; n = 105; 76 males, 29 females) and typically developing children (n = 105; 76 males, 29 females). The relationship between the performance parameters and the children's age was investigated…
Descriptors: Language Impairments, Identification, Motor Development, Psychomotor Skills