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Evaluation of Sensory Integration and Activities of Daily Living in Children with Developmental Coordination Disorder (DCD)
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U.GANAPATHY SANKAR, MONISHA.R
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Developmental coordination disorder (DCD) was defined as “difficulty in organization of the movement”. Children with DCD may exhibit various movement problems and display a wide variety of problems in attaining motor milestones. Majority of the parents and teachers used to represent children with DCD as clumsy and lazy. Most commonly used names were “developmental disorder of the motor functions” as defined in ICD-10, and the “developmental coordination disorder” as defined in DSM-IV. Each child with DCD shows distinct characteristics and found to have individual difficulties and variation. There is a need for individually tailored rehabilitation methods for rehabilitating children with DCD. We aimed to evaluate sensory integration and activities of daily living skills among children with developmental coordination disorder in Indian context. We included 10 children with developmental coordination disorder and 10 healthy age-matched peers’ group children in this study. Sensory Integration Test was used for evaluating the sensory integration and Functional Independence Measure for Children (WeeFIM) was used for evaluating the motor activities and activities of daily living. Results of the current study shows that there is a Significant differences in the perception and copying skill (p<0.05) between group A and B. According to the results of test, their exist a difference in kinesthesia, manual form perception, finger identification, figure-ground perception, localization of tactile stimuli, double tactile stimuli perception (p<0.05). Experimental group was better in motor planning (p<0.05). Special education and rehabilitations should include sensory integration therapy, to enhance the independence in the activities of daily living skills in children with developmental coordination disorder.
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Developmental coordination disorder, Sensory integration, Activities of daily living
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https://doi.org/10.31838/ijpr/2020.SP2.344
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