The Motor Performance of Educable Mentally Retarded and Intellectually Normal Boys after Covariate Control for Differences in Body Size

Dobbins, D. Alan; Garron, Richard; Rarick, G. Lawrence

doi:10.1080/02701367.1981.10609289

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“…This is also in close agreement with earlier observations (e.g., Sugden & Wann, 1987). It has been reported for some time that children with LD perform significantly lower than their peers without LD also in their motor skills (e.g., Dobbins, Garron, & Rarick, 1981;Rarick, Dobbins, & Broadhead, 1976;Sugden & Wann, 1987). We were able to confirm these findings by showing that even if children with DCD were excluded from the LD group, the remaining children in the LD-only group still performed significantly lower than children in the no DCD/no LD group.…”

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Consequences of Comorbidity of Developmental Coordination Disorders and Learning Disabilities for Severity and Pattern of Perceptual—Motor Dysfunction

Smits-Engelsman²,

2003

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Children with developmental coordination disorder (DCD) have difficulty learning and performing age-appropriate perceptual-motor skills in the absence of diagnosable neurological disorders. Descriptive studies have shown that comorbidity of DCD exists with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and learning disabilities (LD). This study examined the consequences of the comorbidity of DCD and LD for the severity and pattern of perceptual-motor dysfunction. Compared to children with DCD without LD, children with comorbid DCD and LD performed lower on a standardized assessment of perceptual-motor ability. Furthermore, it appeared that children with combined DCD and LD have particular difficulty performing manual dexterity and balance tasks but not ball-skill tasks. Implications for understanding the relationship between LD and perceptual-motor problems are discussed. We conclude that the comorbidity of DCD and LD not only affects the severity of perceptual-motor dysfunction but also is associated with a distinctive pattern of perceptual-motor dysfunction.

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confidence: 93%

Consequences of Comorbidity of Developmental Coordination Disorders and Learning Disabilities for Severity and Pattern of Perceptual—Motor Dysfunction

Smits-Engelsman²,

2003

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“…In early adolescence, the abdominal strength/endurance was significantly lower for both the males and the females with ID compared to the comparison group. Earlier studies (Dobbins, Garron, & Rarick, 1981;Fernhall & Pitetti, 2000) found this as well. The low level of abdominal strength/endurance was also noticed in both male and female adults and corroborate earlier results (Felix, McCubbin, & Shaw;Graham & Reid, 2000).…”

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Physical Performance of Individuals with Intellectual Disability: A 30-Year Follow-Up

Lahtinen

Rintala

Malin

2007

Adapted Physical Activity Quarterly

130

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Physical performance of Finnish adolescents (33 females, 44 males) with moderate intellectual disability (ID) was studied over a 30-year period. This study is an extension of Lahtinen’s previous work on documenting the performance of individuals with intellectual disabilities over time. This study consisted of analyzing data from a total of four data collection periods (1973, 1979, 1996, and 2003 in which participants ranged in age from 11-16, 17-22, 34-39 and 41-46 years old, respectively). Improvement from early to late adolescence, and decline during adulthood in abdominal strength/endurance, static balance, and manual dexterity were identified. The male adults with ID were moderately overweight (BMI), but the females with ID were obese. The IQ effect was significant on balance and manual dexterity. The gender differences in adulthood were significant, but differences were not noted for Down syndrome when controlling for IQ.

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“…However, it was shown that the difference in MT could be accounted for by differences in the leg lengths between subjects in the two groups, by calculating movement velocity in terms of leg lengths per second (i.e., MV) and finding no group differences for this variable. This result reinforces the importance of taking into consideration body-size constraints as a possible rate-limiter of the movement skill of handicapped or nonhandicapped individuals (see also Dobbins et al, 1981).…”

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Assessing the Perceptual-Motor Interaction in Developmentally Disabled and Nonhandicapped Children

Burton

1990

Adapted Physical Activity Quarterly

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The purpose of this experiment was to design a gross-motor task that would quantify the perceptual sensitivity of developmentally disabled (DD) and nonhandicapped (NH) children to the relationship between their personal constraints and the constraints in the environment in a movement context. Three groups of subjects participated in this experiment: 17 DD preschoolers, 25 NH kindergarteners, and 27 NH fourth-graders. The subjects moved through a sequence of four high-jump barriers six times as quickly as possible, negotiating the barriers any way they wanted. They also went through the course without the barriers as quickly as possible to establish a baseline movement time. Relative to their own baseline, the fourth-graders moved through the obstacle course significantly faster than the kindergarteners, while the kindergarteners went through the course significantly faster than the DD preschoolers. In addition, significant differences were found between the NH kindergarteners and DD preschoolers for two sets of perceptual variables: percent error and the slopes of two identified transitions from one mode of locomotion to another. These results and further analyses showed that at least some of the movement problems experienced by DD children can be attributed to perceptual difficulties, and established the potential of the present methodology in examining perceptual sensitivity in a movement context in DD and NH children.

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The Motor Performance of Educable Mentally Retarded and Intellectually Normal Boys after Covariate Control for Differences in Body Size

Cited by 12 publications

References 7 publications

Consequences of Comorbidity of Developmental Coordination Disorders and Learning Disabilities for Severity and Pattern of Perceptual—Motor Dysfunction

Consequences of Comorbidity of Developmental Coordination Disorders and Learning Disabilities for Severity and Pattern of Perceptual—Motor Dysfunction

Physical Performance of Individuals with Intellectual Disability: A 30-Year Follow-Up

Assessing the Perceptual-Motor Interaction in Developmentally Disabled and Nonhandicapped Children

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