Examining the relationship between motor assessments and handwriting consistency in children with and without probable Developmental Coordination Disorder

Bo, Jin; Colbert, Alison M.; Lee, Chi Mei; Schaffert, Jeff; Oswald, Kaitlin; Neill, Rebecca

doi:10.1016/j.ridd.2014.04.027

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“…In paragraph writing, activation patterns followed those of previous reports seen in behavioral studies with DCD (Bo et al, 2014;Prunty et al, 2014). While the TD group showed significant activation in the Pre-MC and right DLPFC, children with DCD showed bilateral activation in the PMC and the left post central gyrus (see Fig.…”

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Cortical activity in fine‐motor tasks in children with Developmental Coordination Disorder: A preliminary fNIRS study

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Getchell

Srinivasan

et al. 2017

Intl J of Devlp Neuroscience

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Developmental Coordination Disorder (DCD) is as a neurodevelopmental condition characterized by poor motor proficiency, which impacts academic performance and activities of daily living. Several studies have determined that children with DCD activate different regions of the brain when performing motor skills in comparison to typically developing (TD) children. However, none have used Functional Near-Infrared Spectroscopy (fNIRS) to explore cortical activation in this population. With that, the goal of this preliminary study was to investigate cortical activation using fNIRS in six children with DCD and six TD children between ages of 8 and 12 years. Three fine-motor tasks were performed: Finger Tapping (FT), Curve Tracing (CT), and Paragraph Writing (PW). Tasks were presented in counterbalanced order and had a baseline of 30s. Cortical activity elicited during performance of the FT, CT, and PW tasks was measured by fNIRS, and activation areas within each group were statistically compared. Results indicated that participant groups used different focal activation areas as well as different neural networks to perform the tasks. These distinct patterns were also task-specific, with differences in the right Pre-Motor Cortex (Pre-MC) and Supplementary Motor Area (SMA) for CT, and the right Dorsolateral Prefrontal Cortex (DLPFC) and the right Pre-MC for the PW task. These results add to the body of research exploring neurological alterations in children with DCD, and establish the feasibility of using fNIRS technology with this population.

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Section: Paragraph Writingsupporting

confidence: 79%

Cortical activity in fine‐motor tasks in children with Developmental Coordination Disorder: A preliminary fNIRS study

Caçola

Getchell

Srinivasan

et al. 2017

Intl J of Devlp Neuroscience

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“…Notwithstanding this, overall time to copy was longer in DCD, explained mainly by longer pauses and more time in the air . Larger variability in DCD was seen across measures, particularly temporal . Interestingly, Rosenblum and Regev showed that handwriting metrics (both timing and production quality) correlated moderately with response timing (using the interactive metronome device).…”

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“…54 Larger variability in DCD was seen across measures, particularly temporal. 55 Interestingly, Rosenblum and Regev 54 showed that handwriting metrics (both timing and production quality) correlated moderately with response timing (using the interactive metronome device). In addition, delayed short-term procedural learning was evident on a task requiring the reproduction of novel letterforms.…”

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confidence: 99%

Cognitive and neuroimaging findings in developmental coordination disorder: new insights from a systematic review of recent research

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Smits-Engelsman

Caeyenberghs

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Develop Med Child Neuro

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Taken together, results support the hypothesis that children with DCD show differences in brain structure and function compared with typically developing children. Behaviourally, these differences may affect anticipatory planning and reduce automatization of movement skill, prompting greater reliance on slower feedback-based control and compensatory strategies. Implications for future research, theory development, and clinical practice are discussed.

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“…Among neurodevelopmental disorders, DCD is one of the less studied (Bishop, 2010) despite its high prevalence (from 1.4 to 19.0% of children aged 5 to 11; Lingam, Hunt, Golding, Jongmans, & Emond, 2009;Tsiotra et al, 2006;Wright & Sugden, 1996) and its association with persistent academic difficulties. At school, handwriting difficulties are very common in these children (Bo et al, 2014;Chang & Yu, 2010; At school, children with Developmental Coordination Disorder (DCD) struggle with mathematics. However, little attention has been paid to their numerical cognition abilities.…”

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Mathematical difficulties in developmental coordination disorder: Symbolic and nonsymbolic number processing

Gomez

Piazza

Jobert

et al. 2015

Research in Developmental Disabilities

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Examining the relationship between motor assessments and handwriting consistency in children with and without probable Developmental Coordination Disorder

Cited by 41 publications

References 34 publications

Cortical activity in fine‐motor tasks in children with Developmental Coordination Disorder: A preliminary fNIRS study

Cortical activity in fine‐motor tasks in children with Developmental Coordination Disorder: A preliminary fNIRS study

Cognitive and neuroimaging findings in developmental coordination disorder: new insights from a systematic review of recent research

Mathematical difficulties in developmental coordination disorder: Symbolic and nonsymbolic number processing

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