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Ju, Yun-Huei; You, Jia-Yuan; Cherng, Rong-Ju – Research in Developmental Disabilities: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2010
The purposes of the study were to examine the effect of task constraint on the reaching performance in children with spastic cerebral palsy (CP) and to examine the correlations between the reaching performance and postural control. Eight children with CP and 16 typically developing (TD) children participated in the study. They performed a…
Descriptors: Cerebral Palsy, Children, Psychomotor Skills, Correlation
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Cairney, John; Hay, John; Veldhuizen, Scott; Faught, Brent – Research in Developmental Disabilities: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2010
Oxygen consumption at peak physical exertion (VO[subscript 2] maximum) is the most widely used indicator of cardiorespiratory fitness. The purpose of this study was to compare two protocols for its estimation, cycle ergometer testing and the 20 m shuttle run, among children with and without probable developmental coordination disorder (pDCD). The…
Descriptors: Physical Fitness, Developmental Disabilities, Measurement Equipment, Human Body
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Boets, Bart; De Smedt, Bert; Ghesquiere, Pol – Research in Developmental Disabilities: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2011
Recent findings suggest deficits in coherent motion sensitivity, an index of visual dorsal stream functioning, in children with poor mathematical skills or dyscalculia, a specific learning disability in mathematics. We extended these data using a longitudinal design to unravel whether visual dorsal stream functioning is able to "predict"…
Descriptors: Learning Disabilities, Motion, Reading Ability, Grade 3