Readiness for school entry: a community survey

Relationship of aerobic fitness and motor skills with memory and attention in preschoolers (Ballabeina): A cross-sectional and longitudinal study

“…The findings concerning the motor skill measures complement two existing cross-sectional studies in preschoolers that show similar relationships [13,14]. One previous study that failed to show a relationship between motor skills and cognition had a small sample size ( n = 36 children) [17] compared to the other two ( n = 85 and 295) [13,14]. However, none of the preschool studies assessed aerobic fitness and they did not adjust for BMI or sociocultural characteristics.…”

“…They also postulate that specific types of exercise training may facilitate cognitive performance more than others. Other causes for the contradictory results might be that some of the studies were limited by self reported or subjectively assessed data [21], measures of aerobic fitness or motor skills often restricted to one domain [12,14,17], analyses not adjusted for age and sex [14] and that other confounder variables like BMI or socioeconomic status were only rarely taken into account [21,22]. Thus, more comprehensive cross-sectional and longitudinal analyses are needed.…”

“…Thus, more comprehensive cross-sectional and longitudinal analyses are needed. In preschoolers, studies are particularly rare [13,14,17] and controversial [17] and there is a lack of longitudinal data.…”

Clumsiness in fine motor tasks: evidence from the quantitative drawing evaluation of children with Down Syndrome

“…Graphic tests have been administered to evaluate the performance of children with a wide range of pathologies and/or difficulties, such as children at risk for school problems (Perera ; Bayoglu et al . ), children with developmental co‐ordination disorders (Smits‐Engelsman et al .…”

Outcome of early intervention in infants at risk of developmental delay: a pilot study

“…Prevalence for Sri Lanka probably falls within this range, as indicated by population based studies. For example, a study, which assessed developmental readiness for school entry at 5 years of age, showed delayed cognitive development in 17.8%, leading them to being less ready to commence formal education 2 . Further, a study on mental health problems of urban preschool children identified delayed language development alone in 10% 3 .…”