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The Role of Self-Regulatory and Metacognitive Competence in the Motor Performance Difficulties of Children with Developmental Coordination Disorder: A Theoretical and Empirical Review
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Jokic, Claire Sangster; Whitebread, David – Educational Psychology Review, 2011
Children with developmental coordination disorder (DCD) experience difficulty coping with everyday demands due to difficulties in performing motor tasks. Recently, a cognitive learning paradigm has been applied to studying the nature of the problems experienced by children with DCD, which assumes that these children have fewer cognitive and…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Psychomotor Skills, Role, Developmental Delays
Characterization of Motor Control in Handwriting Difficulties in Children with or without Developmental Coordination Disorder
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Chang, Shao-Hsia; Yu, Nan-Ying – Developmental Medicine & Child Neurology, 2010
Aim: The purpose of this study was to characterize handwriting deficits in children with developmental coordination disorder (DCD) using computerized movement analyses. Method: Seventy-two children (40 females, 32 males; mean age 7y, SD 7mo; range 6y 2mo to 7y 11mo) with handwriting deficits (33 with DCD, 39 without DCD); and 22 age- and…
Descriptors: Handwriting, Motion, Psychomotor Skills, Disabilities
Self-Controlled Feedback Is Effective if It Is Based on the Learner's Performance
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Chiviacowsky, Suzete; Wulf, Gabriele – Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport, 2005
The study follows up on the contention that self-controlled feedback schedules benefit learning, because they are more tailored to the performers' needs than externally controlled feedback schedules (Chiviacowsky & Wulf, 2002). Under this assumption, one would expect learning advantages for individuals who decide whether they want to receive…
Descriptors: Feedback, Psychomotor Skills, Motor Development, Sequential Learning
Practice Changes the Usage of Moment Components in Executing a Multijoint Task
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Kadota, Koji; Matsuo, Tomoyuki; Hashizume, Ken; Tezuka, Kazushi – Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport, 2004
In this article, the authors examined changes in the usage of muscular and motion-dependent moments during the long-term practice of a complex, multijoint movement. Seven participants practiced a cyclic movement of the upper limbs until their joint angular movements conformed to those of an expert. The motions of the participants were digitally…
Descriptors: Biomechanics, Kinetics, Human Body, Motion
Practitioner Review: Approaches to Assessment and Treatment of Children with DCD--An Evaluative Review
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Wilson, Peter H. – Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 2005
Background: Movement clumsiness (or Developmental Coordination Disorder--DCD) has gained increasing recognition as a significant condition of childhood. However, some uncertainty still exists about diagnosis. Accordingly, approaches to assessment and treatment are varied, each drawing on distinct theoretical assumptions about the aetiology of the…
Descriptors: Intervention, Systems Approach, Task Analysis, Integrity
Movement Control in Cerebral Palsied Children during a Developmental Test.
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Hallam, Philippa M.; Williams, John G. – 1987
The purpose of the study was to determine whether particular aspects of movement control influenced the performance of 2-year-old children on a standard developmental test, and thus influenced assessments of intellectual progress based on that test. Six cerebral-palsied (CP) children were compared with six children not suffering motor system…
Descriptors: Cerebral Palsy, Child Development, Difficulty Level, Early Childhood Education