Clumsiness in children: a defect of kinaesthetic perception?

Smyth, T. R.

doi:10.1111/j.1365-2214.1994.tb00372.x

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“…Deficiency in motor planning, poor motor coordination, lack of the process in tactile, proprioceptive and kinesthetic inputs are common problems in children with DCD and they demonstrate a heavy reliance on visual feedback to guide task performance [16-18]. According to these problems, these children may have difficulties in sensory integration process.…”

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Sensory integration and activities of daily living in children with developmental coordination disorder

2012

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ObjectiveThe aim of our study was to evaluate sensory integration and activities of daily living in children with developmental coordination disorderSubjects and methods37 cases with developmental coordination disorder and 35 healthy age-matched peers were included in this study. Ayres Southern California Sensory Integration Test was used for evaluating the sensory integration and Functional Independence Measure for Children (WeeFIM) was used for evaluating the activities of daily living.ResultsSignificant differences were found in the visual shape perception, position in space, and design copying (p < 0.05). According to the results of somatosensory perception tests, significant differences were found in kinesthesia, manual form perception, finger identification, figure-ground perception, localization of tactile stimuli, double tactile stimuli perception (p < 0.05). Control group was better in motor planning (p < 0.05). Comprehension, expression, social communication, problem solving, and memory skills were significant in favor of the control group (p < 0.05). Graphestesia and self-care domain was found to be correlated (r = 0,491, p = 0.002) between the groups.DiscussionSpecial education and rehabilitation programs including sensory integration therapy and motor performance will increase independence in the activities of daily living in children with developmental coordination disorder.

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“…Thus, the results of earlier studies, in which scores derived from only the preferred hand or a combination of both hands were used Hulme et al 1982aHulme et al , 1984Smyth 1991Smyth , 1994, might need to be qualified. At the same time, they point to possible underlying neurological disorders in the HECP children that might mediate in the poor performance with the non-preferred hand.…”

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Inter- and intra-sensory modality matching in children with hand-eye co-ordination problems

1997

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Inter- and intra-sensory modality matching by 8-year-old children diagnosed as having hand-eye co-ordination problems (HECP) and by a control group of children without such problems were tested using a target-location and pointing task. The task required the children to locate target pins visually (seen target), with the hand (felt target) or in combination (felt and seen target), while pointing to the located target was always carried out without vision. The most striking finding, for both the control and the HECP children, was the superiority of performance when the target had to be located visually. When combined scores for both hands were analysed, the HECP children showed inferior performance to the control children in both inter- and intra-modal matching. Analyses of the scores achieved with the preferred and non-preferred hand separately, however, demonstrated that the differences between the HECP and the control children could, in the main, be attributed to lowered performances when the non-preferred hand was used for pointing to the target. When pointing with the preferred hand, the only significant difference between the groups was when the target was visually located, the control children showing superior performance. Pointing with the non-preferred hand gave rise to significant differences, in favour of the control children, when the target was located visually, with the hand or in combination. These findings suggest that earlier studies, using only the preferred hand or a combination of the scores of both hands, might need to be qualified. Putative neurological disorders in the HECP children are invoked to account for the poor performance with the non-preferred hand.

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“…Several childhood motor disorders are believed to be linked to abnormal kinaesthesia. For example, children diagnosed with developmental coordination disorder may show reduced kinaesthetic acuity in conjunction with visual and visuomotor deficits 4–7 . (Here, ‘acuity’ refers to the sharpness or resolution of the kinaesthetic system.…”

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Measuring kinaesthetic sensitivity in typically developing children

Pickett¹,

Konczak²

2009

Develop Med Child Neuro

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This study presents a method to quantify a child’s sensitivity to passive limb motion, which is an important aspect of kinaesthesia not easily examined clinically. Psychophysical detection thresholds to passive forearm motion were determined in a group of 20 typically developing pre‐adolescent children (mean age 12y 6mo, SD 10mo, range 11−13y) and a group of 10 healthy adults (mean age 29y 10mo, SD 10y 7mo, range 18−50y). A newly designed passive motion apparatus was used to measure the time to detection of forearm motion and the errors in determining movement direction. Results showed that limb motion sensitivity became increasingly variable below 0.3°/s in children and adults. In comparison with adults, movement detection times in the pediatric group were increased by between 4% and 108% for the range of tested velocities (0.075−1.35°/s). At 0.075°/s, 5% of the children, but 50% of the adults, made no directional error, indicating that motion perception became unreliable at such low velocity in both groups. The findings demonstrate that sensitivity to passive forearm motion in children should be tested at a range between 0.075 and 0.3°/s. They further suggest that passive motion sensitivity may not be fully developed in pre‐adolescent children.

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Clumsiness in children: a defect of kinaesthetic perception?

Cited by 22 publications

References 6 publications

Sensory integration and activities of daily living in children with developmental coordination disorder

Sensory integration and activities of daily living in children with developmental coordination disorder

Inter- and intra-sensory modality matching in children with hand-eye co-ordination problems

Measuring kinaesthetic sensitivity in typically developing children

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