Balance and Coordination Capacities of Male Children and Adolescents With Intellectual Disability.

TitleBalance and Coordination Capacities of Male Children and Adolescents With Intellectual Disability.
Publication TypeJournal Article
Year of Publication2017
AuthorsPitetti, K, Miller, RAnn, Loovis, M
JournalAdapt Phys Activ Q
Volume34
Issue1
Pagination1-18
Date Published2017 Jan
ISSN1543-2777
KeywordsAdolescent, Child, Disability Evaluation, Humans, Intellectual Disability, Male, Motor Skills, Postural Balance
Abstract

Children and adolescents with intellectual disability (ID) exhibit a mixture of cognitive, motor, and psychosocial limitation. Identifying specific inadequacies in motor proficiency in youth with ID would improve therapeutic management to enhance functional capacity and health-related physical activity. The purpose of this study was to initiate descriptive data collection of gross motor skills of youth with ID and compare those skills with competency norms. The Bruininks-Oseretsky Test of Motor Proficiency (BOT-2) was used to measure 6 items for balance (BAL), 5 items for upper limb coordination (ULC), and 6 items for bilateral coordination (BLC) of 123 males (ages 8-18) with ID but without Down syndrome. The authors performed 2,840 assessments (10-32 for each item); 944, 985, and 913 for BAL, ULC, and BLC, respectively. Mean scores for all age groups for BAL, ULC, and BLC were consistently below BOT-2 criteria. Overall motor skills of males with ID are below the competence expected for children and adolescents without disabilities.

DOI10.1123/APAQ.2016-0010
Alternate JournalAdapt Phys Activ Q
PubMed ID28218875

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Ayooluwa Florence (not verified) / 3 years ago / permalink
Want to study more about children and adolescents

Raising up children and adolescents in the generation of ours is a very big and serious task o parants

Ayooluwa Florence (not verified) / 3 years ago / permalink
How children will cope on mist of children with disability

Some children immediately they see any child with disabilities they feel somehow