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Understanding the Development of Skill Among Children with Developmental Coordination Disorder (DCD)- Pilot Study
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U.GANAPATHY SANKAR, MONISHA.R
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Children used to have wide range of skills to perform any motor activity and they have few adaptive strategies to cope up with the difficult motor task. Few children lack the ability to perform motor activity and they fail to cope up with academic task. Ball catching and throwing is considered to be the familiar sport among the children at primary schools and ball catching task demands a set of complex motor events. Ball catching is a demanding task, which demands a Childs attention, visual feedback, bilateral coordination of hands and legs as well as orientation to the environment. Catching a ball needs an adjustment in hand and leg in relation to the force and speed of the ball approaching from the distance. The presence of marked motor impairment without any medical condition or neurological disorder will diagnose a child as having developmental coordination disorder. Majority of the motor deficit assessment tests includes ball catching skill, to identify and quantify the motor deficit exhibited by the children. We aimed to objectively measure the ball catching skill among children of age band 5-8 years diagnosed with developmental coordination disorder. We scored the performance of the children by visualizing and analyzing the videotaped document of the task repeated and succeeded in several attempts. Outcome measure used in the current study is the number of successful attempts of catching the manually thrown balls from the examiner. This pilot study was planned to be followed up by establishing the reliability and validity in future among children with DCD. However in the current study, we have established the test-retest reliability. Which is good and boys were proved to have good ball catching ability than girls. Current study incorporated 30 trails and further studies are needed to validate the findings of the current pilot study.
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Ball catching skill, motor task, DCD, primary schools
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https://doi.org/10.31838/ijpr/2020.SP2.345
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