Effectiveness of Neuromotor Task Training for Children with Developmental Coordination Disorder: A Pilot Study | Zendy

Marina M. Schoemaker | Zendy; Anuschka S. Niemeijer | Zendy; Koop Reynders | Zendy; Bouwien SmitsEngelsman | Zendy

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Effectiveness of Neuromotor Task Training for Children with Developmental Coordination Disorder: A Pilot Study

Author(s) -

Marina M. Schoemaker,

Anuschka S. Niemeijer,

Koop Reynders,

Bouwien SmitsEngelsman

Publication year - 2003

Publication title -

neural plasticity

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 1.288

H-Index - 68

eISSN - 2090-5904

pISSN - 1687-5443

DOI - 10.1155/np.2003.155

Subject(s) - handwriting , dysgraphia , motor skill , physical medicine and rehabilitation , psychology , task (project management) , intervention (counseling) , physical therapy , treatment and control groups , developmental psychology , medicine , psychiatry , philosophy , linguistics , reading (process) , management , pathology , political science , law , economics , dyslexia

The aim of this pilot study was to evaluate the effectiveness of a Neuromotor Task Training (NTT), recently developed for the treatment of children with Developmental Coordination Disorder (DCD) by pediatric physical therapists in the Netherlands. NTT is a task-oriented treatment program based upon recent insights from motor control and motor learning research. Ten children with DCD (intervention group) were tested before and after 9 and 18 treatment sessions on the Movement ABC and a dysgraphia scale in order to measure the effectiveness of treatment on gross and fine motor skills in general and handwriting in particular. Five children (no-treatment control group) were tested twice with a time lag of nine weeks on the Movement ABC in order to measure spontaneous improvement. No improvement was measured for the children in the no-treatment control group, whereas a significant improvement was found for children in the intervention group for both quality of handwriting and performance on the Movement ABC after 18 treatment sessions.

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