AIM The aim was to determine the effect of a physical activity, diet, and behaviour modification intervention of 13 weeks, 3x per week for 60 minutes on the body composition and physical fitness of overweight and obese children. METHODS A convenience sample of 37 subjects with a mean age of 11 years (±0.99) was used, where 20 subjects (13 girls; seven boys) took part in the intervention and 1...

Data are equivocal regarding the long-term consequences of prenatal exposure to cocaine on school-aged children. We compared 101 children exposed prenatally to cocaine with 130 unexposed children on measures of intelligence, visual motor, and motor abilities at age 7 years. Bivariate analyses revealed that cocaine-exposed children scored significantly lower than comparison children on the abbre...

Abstract Purpose New perspectives on rehabilitation options for inner ear malformations have still been studied in the literature. This study investigated cognitive, language, and motor skills of auditory brainstem implant (ABI) users unimodal bimodal groups. Methods The competency participants was assessed with Bruininks–Oseretsky Motor Proficiency Test‐2 Short Form (BOT2 SF). Language perform...

the aim of this study was to investigate the effect of traditional - local games on the development of gross motor skills of children with educable mental retardation. 30 educable mentally retarded children in welfare organization of marivan city (mea age 12.8 ±1.12 yr and iq 33.61±7.81) were studied with purposive sampling method. all children were pretested; then, samples were randomly divide...

Introduction: Cerebral palsy is one of the most commonly diagnosed neurological syndromes in children today. The prevalent abnormalities development patients with cerebral are related to general motor skills, body posture and muscle tension. sum these disorders affects, inter alia, gross which movements involving either entire or a significant part it. These include, for example, walking, runni...

OBJECTIVE To examine the effects of bronchopulmonary dysplasia (BPD) and very low birth weight (VLBW) on the cognitive and academic achievement of a large sample of 8-year-old children. METHODS Infants who were VLBW and had BPD (n = 98) or did not have BPD (n = 75) and term infants (n = 99) were followed prospectively to age 8. Groups were compared on measures assessing 4 broad areas of funct...

Neuropsychomotor development is characterized of physical and neurological changes that start from conception involve biological, social, affective psychological aspects. A change in the middle this process can be a sign motor disorder or delay. Therefore, it important to carry out an assessment makes possible identify deficits, limitations andrestrictions. For this, necessary use validated mon...

the aim of this study was to investigate the effect of a selected physical activity program on the development of motor skills in children with attention deficit / hyperactivity disorder (adhd) and high functioning autism (hfa). in this semiexperimental research, 20 children (8.8+0.7 years old) with hfa and 10 children (7.9+1.4 years old) with adhd based on pretest scores were randomly selected...