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Motor Skill Learning in Children with Developmental Coordination Disorder
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Bo, Jin; Lee, Chi-Mei – Research in Developmental Disabilities: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2013
Children with Developmental Coordination Disorder (DCD) are characterized as having motor difficulties and learning impairment that may last well into adolescence and adulthood. Although behavioral deficits have been identified in many domains such as visuo-spatial processing, kinesthetic perception, and cross-modal sensory integration, recent…
Descriptors: Learning Disabilities, Intervention, Sensory Integration, Psychomotor Skills
Assessments Used to Diagnose Developmental Coordination Disorder: Do Their Underlying Constructs Match the Diagnostic Criteria?
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Darsaklis, Vasiliki; Snider, Laurie M.; Majnemer, Annette; Mazer, Barbara – Physical & Occupational Therapy in Pediatrics, 2013
This study examined the constructs underlying the Movement Assessment Battery for Children-2 (M-ABC-2), Bruninks-Oseretsky Test of Motor Proficiency (BOTMP) and Vineland Adaptive Behavior Scale-2 (VABS-2) using the framework of the International Classification of Functioning Disability and Health--Child Youth version (ICF-CY) and the diagnostic…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Motor Development, Children, Developmental Disabilities
Detection and Prevalence of Motor Skill Disorders
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Nikolic, Snezana J.; Ilic-Stosovic, Danijela D. – Research in Developmental Disabilities: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2009
The main goal of this research was to establish the prevalence, form of manifestation, level and kind of motor skill disorders in three area of motor development functioning: neuromaturation, coordination and balance. The sample included 1165 children, between 6.5 and 11 years of age. The protocol was constructed and contained tests for the…
Descriptors: Incidence, Learning Disabilities, Psychomotor Skills, Motor Development
Summer Education Program for Neurologically and Physically Handicapped Children. Summer 1975. Evaluation Report.
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Ellis, Ronald S. – 1975
Evaluated was the Summer Education Program for Neurologically and Physically Handicapped Children, designed to improve the performance of 145 children (6-16 years old) in the following areas--gross motor skills, swimming, fine motor skills, socialization with nonhandicapped peers, and independent daily living skills. The program included the…
Descriptors: Daily Living Skills, Elementary Secondary Education, Exceptional Child Research, Learning Disabilities
Teaching Handicapped Students Physical Education: A Resource Handbook for K-12 Teachers.
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Roice, G. Robert, Ed. – 1981
One of five volumes intended to help teachers of mainstreamed handicapped students, the book presents twelve papers on physical education instruction. The following titles and authors are included: "The Heartbreak of Kickball, Dodgeball, and Drop the Hankie--Elementary School Physical Education--The Bases for the Basics" (R. Benton); "Shared…
Descriptors: Adapted Physical Education, Deafness, Disabilities, Elementary Secondary Education
Project OMNI: Orientation & Mobility for Needed Independence. A Pre-Requisite Orientation and Mobility Skills Development Curriculum.
Williams, Ben H.; And Others – 1982
The Project OMNI curriculum is intended to help students develop necessary prerequisite skills for independent travel. The teacher's guidebook provides an overview of the OMNI curriculum components (individual student inventories, individual student profiles, and curriculum modules); discusses the relation of the module areas to the mobility…
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Concept Formation, Curriculum Guides, Daily Living Skills