Hand skill assessment with a reduced version of the Peg Moving Task (PMT-5) in children: Normative data and application in children with cerebral palsy

Abstract

This paper proposes a simple method of hand skill assessment in children that can be useful in clinical practice. A reduced 5-hole version of Annett's Peg Moving Task was used to quantify hand skill bilaterally in 435 normally developing preschool and school-children, and adolescents aged 3-18 years from Brazil. The cross-cultural validity of the normative data obtained in Brazil was verified in 157 school-children aged 6-11 years from France. An application in 76 children with cerebral palsy (hemiplegia 21, diplegia 34, triplegia 6, mixed type 15) showed very important variability of the deficits in hand function within each subtype of cerebral palsy (CP). Hand deficits were more severe in children in special schools than in children in regular schools within each CP subtype. A qualitative analysis showed which difficulties during the execution of the task were specific to children with CP and which were also observed in normally developing children.

Ocena funkcjonalna kończyn górnych po operacjach naprawczych wad wrodzonych łuku aorty u dzieci w zależności od unaczynienia tętniczego

“…The test consists in placing 5 sticks in the holes of a wooden board as soon as possible. The hand that completed the task in a shorter time is considered as dominant [10]. In older children, the dominant upper limb is the hand the child writes, uses a spoon, toothbrush, or scissors [11].…”

Preschool language and visuospatial skills respectively predict multiplication and addition/subtraction skills in middle school children

“…Answers that were not delivered within 10 s were considered wrong. Due to the fact that children were not in the same school grade when tested (ranging from grade 5 to grade 7, see Table 1), which was related to their performance at the test, we adjusted the final score for Subtests from the WISC-III (Wechsler, 1967(Wechsler, , 2004 and NEPSY (Kemp et al, 2001;Korkman et al, 2003) batteries were administered, as well as the Peg-moving task (Nunes et al, 2008).…”

Time perception in children treated for a cerebellar medulloblastoma

“…Values greater than 2 standard deviations from the expected aged mean corresponds to a major deficit in this cognitive dimension. Normative data obtained by Nunes, Braga Rossi, Lawisch, Nunes, and Dellatolas (2008) were used to calculate this score.…”