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Coordination in Low Birthweight Seven‐Year‐Olds
Author(s) -
ELLIMAN ALISON M.,
BRYAN ELIZABETH M.,
ELLIMAN ANTHONY D.,
WALKER JEAN,
HARVEY DAVID R.
Publication year - 1991
Publication title -
acta pædiatrica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.772
H-Index - 115
eISSN - 1651-2227
pISSN - 0803-5253
DOI - 10.1111/j.1651-2227.1991.tb11855.x
Subject(s) - medicine , gross motor skill , dominance (genetics) , pediatrics , laterality , ocular dominance , motor coordination , affect (linguistics) , demography , motor skill , audiology , psychiatry , psychology , biochemistry , chemistry , visual cortex , communication , neuroscience , sociology , gene
. The coordination and laterality of a group of 171 seven‐year‐old children, free from major disability, with a birthweight of 2000 g or less, were examined and compared with those of normal birthweight peers. More low birthweight children were left‐handed and of mixed or undetermined hand, foot and eye dominance. Left‐handedness may adversely affect some areas of performance of normal birthweight but not of low birthweight children. Low birthweight children performed significantly less well in tests of both fine and gross motor coordination. Girls tended to perform better than boys in fine motor tests. In the low birthweight group there was a correlation between IQ and coordination.