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Motor skill intervention for pre-school children: A scoping review
African Journal of Disability, 2020 Background: There is a high prevalence of motor skill difficulties amongst pre-school children living in low socio-economic areas. Motor skill impairment can affect these children’s school readiness and academic progress, social skills, play and general ...
Janke van der Walt +2 more
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Context-dependent motor skill and the role of practice [PDF]
, 2011 Research has shown that retrieval of learned information is better when the original learning context is reinstated during testing than when this context is changed.
Abrahamse, E.L. +4 more
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Developmental Disorders in Children Recently Diagnosed With Cancer
Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Neurocognitive deficits in adult survivors of childhood cancer are well established, but less is known about developmental disorders (DD) arising shortly after cancer diagnosis. Using 2016–2019 linked Ohio cancer registry and Medicaid data, we compared DD among 324 children with cancer and 606,913 cancer‐free controls.
Jamie Shoag +5 more
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Teaching for physical literacy: Implications to instructional design and PETE
Journal of Sport and Health Science, 2015 Physical education teachers play an important role in helping students' development of the motor skills needed to be physically literate individuals.
Stephen Silverman, Kevin Mercier
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Effect of Balance Training with Swiss Ball on Gross Motor Skill of Children with Attention Deficit – Hyperactivity Disorder [PDF]
رشد و یادگیری حرکتی ورزشی, 2015 Fundamental motor skills are key components of motor development and are divided into two main sub groups including fine and gross motor skills. The main purpose of the present study was to determine the effect of balance training with Swiss ball (BTWSB)
Farideh Shafati +2 more
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Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Bone tumours present significant challenges for affected patients, as multimodal therapy often leads to prolonged physical limitations. This is particularly critical during childhood and adolescence, as it can negatively impact physiological development and psychosocial resilience.
Jennifer Queisser +5 more
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Therapeutic Apheresis and Dialysis, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Introduction Cognitive impairment and exercise intolerance are common in dialysis patients. Cerebral perfusion and oxygenation play a major role in both cognitive function and exercise execution; HD session per se aggravates cerebral ischemia in this population. This study aimed to compare cerebral oxygenation and perfusion at rest and in mild
Marieta P. Theodorakopoulou +10 more
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An introduction to the constraints-led approach to learning in outdoor education [PDF]
, 2010 Participation in outdoor education is underpinned by a learner's ability to acquire skills in activities such as canoeing, bushwalking and skiing and consequently the outdoor leader is often required to facilitate skill acquisition and motor learning. As
Brymer, Eric, Renshaw, Ian
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, 2011 Motor learning research has suggested that self-controlled practice (or “autonomy”) leads to more effective learning of motor tasks. Debate continues, however, as to why.
Rydberg, Nels
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Damage to fronto-parietal networks impairs motor imagery ability after stroke : a voxel-based lesion symptom mapping study [PDF]
, 2016 Background: mental practice with motor imagery has been shown to promote motor skill acquisition in healthy subjects and patients. Although lesions of the common motor imagery and motor execution neural network are expected to impair motor imagery ...
Oostra, Kristine M +3 more
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