Zuiderwijk, L.C.M. (2016) The relation between the type and complexity of gross motor skills and executive functioning within children with a learning delay. thesis, Sport Sciences.
Full text available on request.Abstract
Adequate gross motor skills help a child to engage successfully during sport and activities. Children with a learning delay are thought to have problems with motor skills as well. Previous studies have shown a positive relationship between gross motor skills and executive functioning in typically developing children. It has been suggested that complex motor skills show the strongest relations. The current study tested 1) if there is a specific relation between different types of gross motor skills and different domains of executive functioning in children with a learning delay, and 2) if complexity of motor skills plays a critical part in this relation. Fifty-three children (37 boys and 16 girls) aged 9 till 12 years with an normal IQ (≥ 75), of a special education school in the North of the Netherlands participated. Motor skills were tested with the Bruininks-Oseretsky Test of Motor Proficiency Second Edition (balance, bilateral coordination, upper-, and lower-limb coordination), executive functions with; the Digit Span & Visual Memory span of the Wechsler Memory Scale (working memory), the Stroop Color and Word test (inhibition), the Tower of London (planning), and the Modified Wisconsin Card Sorting test (cognitive flexibility). The degree of complexity of each motor skill exercise was set by using a rating system developed by the author and two other students. The present study did not demonstrate a relation between the different types of gross motor skills and executive functioning after controlling for age and gender. Nor did it show a stronger relationship with an increase of complexity, in children with a learning delay. Future studies should include fine motor skills and/or other dimensions of complexity
| Item Type: | Thesis (UNSPECIFIED) |
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| Supervisor name: | Hartman, dr. E. |
| Faculty: | Medical Sciences |
| Date Deposited: | 04 May 2022 08:39 |
| Last Modified: | 04 May 2022 08:39 |
| URI: | https://umcg.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/id/eprint/3214 |
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