title: Motor impairments screened by the movement assessment battery for children-2 are related to the visual-perceptual deficits in children with developmental coordination disorder.
abstract: This study was to examine to what extent the motor deficits of children with Developmental Coordination Disorder (DCD) verified by the Movement Assessment Battery for Children-2 (MABC-2) are linked to their visual-perceptual abilities. Seventeen children with DCD and seventeen typically developing children (TD) aged 5-10 years screened from a total of 250 children were recruited. The assessments included MABC-2, traditional test of visual perceptual skills (TVPS-R), and computerized test for sequential coupling of eye and hand as well as motion coherence. The results indicated that children with DCD scored lower than TD in MABC-2, and their total scores were highly correlated with manual dexterity component scores. DCD group also showed poor visual-perceptual abilities in various aspects. The visual discrimination and visual sequential memory from the TVPS-R, the sequential coupling of eye and hand, and the motion coherence demonstrated a moderate or strong correlation with the MABC-2 in the DCD rather than the TD group. It was concluded that the motor problems screened by MABC-2 were significantly related to the visual-perceptual deficits of children with DCD. MABC-2 is suggested to be a prescreening tool to identify the visual-perceptual related motor deficits.
authors.affiliation: Department of Physical Therapy and Graduate Institute of Rehabilitation Science, College of Medicine, Chang Gung University, Tao-Yuan 333, Taiwan. Electronic address: chcheng@mail.cgu.edu.tw.
authors.forename: Chih-Hsiu
authors.initials: CH
authors.lastname: Cheng
authors.affiliation: Department of Adapted Physical Education, National Taiwan Sport University, 250 Wen-Hua 1st Road, Kwei-Shan, Tao-Yuan 333, Taiwan. Electronic address: yanju@ntsu.edu.tw.
authors.forename: Yan-Ying
authors.initials: YY
authors.lastname: Ju
authors.affiliation: Graduate Institute of Early Intervention, College of Medicine, Chang Gung University, 259 Wen-Hua 1st Road, Kwei-Shan, Tao-Yuan 333, Taiwan. Electronic address: news0350496@gmail.com.
authors.forename: Hsin-Wen
authors.initials: HW
authors.lastname: Chang
authors.affiliation: Graduate Institute of Early Intervention, College of Medicine, Chang Gung University, 259 Wen-Hua 1st Road, Kwei-Shan, Tao-Yuan 333, Taiwan. Electronic address: clingchen@gmail.com.
authors.forename: Chia-Ling
authors.initials: CL
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.affiliation: Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Tao-Yuan, Taiwan. Electronic address: yspeii@gmail.com.
authors.forename: Yu-Cheng
authors.initials: YC
authors.lastname: Pei
authors.affiliation: Department of Industrial Design, College of Management, Chang Gung University, 259 Wenhua 1st Road, Guishan, Tao-Yuan 33302, Taiwan. Electronic address: ktseng@pddlab.org.
authors.forename: Kevin C
authors.initials: KC
authors.lastname: Tseng
authors.affiliation: Graduate Institute of Early Intervention, College of Medicine, Chang Gung University, 259 Wen-Hua 1st Road, Kwei-Shan, Tao-Yuan 333, Taiwan. Electronic address: kcheng@mail.cgu.edu.tw.
authors.forename: Hsin-Yi Kathy
authors.initials: HY
authors.lastname: Cheng
mesh_terms: D016022:Case-Control Studies; D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009048:Motor Skills; D019957:Motor Skills Disorders / Q000150:complications / Q000503:physiopathology*; D010468:Perceptual Disorders / Q000150:complications / Q000503:physiopathology*; D011597:Psychomotor Performance; D014796:Visual Perception / Q000502:physiology*
keywords: Balance; Developmental Coordination Disorder; Manual dexterity; Movement; Perception