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Pankey, Rachelle Hallmark – ProQuest LLC, 2022
This dissertation investigated the efficacy of an eight-week dysgraphia intervention, created to address dyslexic dysgraphia and motor dysgraphia. Following multiple case study and mixed-methods designs, the researcher quantitatively assessed the copying fluency and compositional fluency for three high school male participants prior to and after…
Descriptors: Dyslexia, Learning Disabilities, Students with Disabilities, High School Students
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Jensen, Rune Dall; Brydges, Ryan; Grierson, Lawrence – Advances in Health Sciences Education, 2022
The study of adaptive expertise in health professions education has focused almost exclusively on cognitive skills, largely ignoring the processes of adaptation in the performance of precision technical skills. We present a focused review of literature to argue that repetitive practice is much less repetitive than often perceived. Our main thesis…
Descriptors: Expertise, Allied Health Occupations Education, Medical Education, Psychomotor Skills
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Iuzzini-Seigel, Jenya; Moorer, Laura; Tamplain, Priscila – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 2022
Purpose: Children with childhood apraxia of speech (CAS) evidence a high rate of co-occurring fine and gross motor deficits. This clinical focus article reports a preliminary investigation of characteristics of developmental coordination disorder (DCD), a neurodevelopmental disorder categorized by poor motor proficiency and functional limitations,…
Descriptors: Speech Impairments, Psychomotor Skills, Physical Disabilities, Neurological Impairments
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Feldhacker, Diana R.; Cosgrove, Reilly; Feiten, Ben; Schmidt, Kayleigh; Stewart, Marissa – Journal of Occupational Therapy, Schools & Early Intervention, 2022
Aims: The purpose of this study was to understand the frequency of reflex retention as well as the correlation between primitive reflex activity and scholastic performance. This quantitative correlational study involved 24 kindergartners and 29 first-graders (31 males and 22 females), aged 5-7 years, who were typically developing. Researchers…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Psychomotor Skills, Academic Achievement, Correlation
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Yakuwa, Marina Sayuri; Pancieri, Letícia; Neill, Sarah; de Mello, Débora Falleiros – SAGE Open, 2022
To analyze mothers' understanding of child brain development and their stimulus practices with children in the first months of life. Qualitative research, with 18 Brazilian mothers, over 18 years of age, used semi-structured interviews to identify their perspectives on important healthcare outcomes, based on reflexive thematic analysis. Mother's…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Mothers, Concept Formation, Brain
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Van Damme, Tine; Vancampfort, Davy; Thoen, Anoushka; Sanchez, Carlos Pelayo Ramos; Van Biesen, Debbie – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2022
Although motor problems are highly prevalent in children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD), they remain underdiagnosed. Questionnaire-based screening for motor problems could optimize current clinical practice. This study aimed to examine the psychometric properties of the developmental coordination disorder questionnaire (DCDQ) to screen for…
Descriptors: Questionnaires, Evaluation Methods, Children, Autism
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Konukman, Ferman; Filiz, Bijen; Tufekcioglu, Ertan; Afrouzeh, Mohsen; Ghayebzadeh, Shahrouz; Erdogan, Murat – Strategies: A Journal for Physical and Sport Educators, 2022
Research indicates that resistance training provides many health and fitness benefits to children and adolescents as long as proper guidelines and training provided such as increased, muscle strength, muscle power-endurance, bone mineral density, improved motor skill performance and reduced sport injuries. As a result, resistance bands training…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Physical Fitness, Training
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Audrey Landuran; Clélia Raynaud; Bernard N'kaoua – Journal of Developmental and Physical Disabilities, 2022
The theory of self-determination considers that both environmental issues (such as the opportunity of choice) and intra-individual factors are correlated or predictive of self-determination. With regard to within-individual factors, some studies have explored the links between intellectual functioning and self-determination in people with Down…
Descriptors: Down Syndrome, Self Determination, Thinking Skills, Psychomotor Skills
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Wilson, Erin; Simione, Meg; Polley, Lydia – International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 2021
Background: Chewing dysfunction can have adverse effects on growth, development and quality of life. There is a lack of evidence-based consensus guidelines for sensorimotor intervention. To address this, we need to understand the current state of the science in clinical sensorimotor interventions for paediatric chewing dysfunction and…
Descriptors: Psychomotor Skills, Intervention, Perceptual Motor Learning, Children
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Grebneva, Valentina V.; Sadovski, Marina V.; Kovtunenko, Alexey Yu. – Asian Journal of University Education, 2021
The advent of technology has overshadowed children's leisure time and deprived them of the opportunity for physical activity. The main target of the current study is to discuss about the methodology of individualized diagnostics of motor activity peculiarities among children during the preschool period. The aspect of physical activity development…
Descriptors: Early Experience, Psychomotor Skills, Skill Development, Preschool Children
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Tuckey, Claire M.; Patterson, Jae T. – International Journal of Kinesiology in Higher Education, 2021
The study of sport specific expertise, and varsity cheerleading, in particular, is rising in competitiveness in recent years. In the motor learning literature, cheerleading has yet to be explored as an athletic experience that may exemplify being an error detection expert. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to determine whether having…
Descriptors: Athletics, Experience, Expertise, Competition
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Nesbitt, Danielle; Bullard, Derrick – Strategies: A Journal for Physical and Sport Educators, 2021
Too often coaches and parents push their children into specialization of sports in the hope their child will become an elite athlete; however, the journey to becoming an elite athlete is a complex one that requires a strong foundation both mentally and physically. It is important for the growth and development of a young athlete to have all the…
Descriptors: Athletics, Psychomotor Skills, Athletes, Skill Development
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Li, Yao-Chuen; Chen, Wei-Ying; Zhu, Yi-Ching; Wu, Sheng K – International Journal of Disability, Development and Education, 2021
This study aimed to investigate whether the Finger-Nose-Finger (FNF) task could be a potential test to identify school-aged children with probable Developmental Coordination Disorder (pDCD) from a large population. This study recruited 1365 nine to twelve years old children, 362 of whom were identified as pDCD using the Movement Assessment Battery…
Descriptors: Performance Tests, Disability Identification, Developmental Disabilities, Perceptual Motor Coordination
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Capio, Catherine M.; Chan, Wai Ling; Li, Echo Si – Journal of Education for Teaching: International Research and Pedagogy, 2021
Teachers play a crucial role in promoting motor development in early childhood. A series of focus-group discussions was conducted with kindergarten teachers in Hong Kong to co-design movement activities. This paper reports the process and implications to teachers' professional development.
Descriptors: Early Childhood Teachers, Psychomotor Skills, Skill Development, Kindergarten
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Battista, Rebecca A.; Bouldin, Erin D.; Pfeiffer, Karin A.; Pacewicz, Christine E.; Siegel, Shannon R.; Martin, Eric M.; True, Larissa; Branta, Crystal F.; Haubenstricker, John; Seefeldt, Vern – Measurement in Physical Education and Exercise Science, 2021
Participation in youth sport is positively associated with physical fitness and performance. The purpose of the current study was to examine if physical fitness measures during childhood and early adolescence predicted high school sport participation. Participants included youth in the Michigan State University Motor Performance Study. Measures…
Descriptors: Physical Fitness, Predictor Variables, High School Students, Student Athletes
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