One important determinant of childhood physical activity and sedentary behavior may be that of motor development in infancy. The present analyses aimed to investigate whether gross and fine motor delays in infants were associated with objective and self-reported activity in childhood. Data were from the UK Millennium Cohort Study, a prospective cohort study, involving UK children born on or aro...

7. Bartlett D, Galuppi B, Palisano R, McCoy S. Consensus classifications of gross motor, manual ability, and communication function classification systems between therapists and parents of children with cerebral palsy. Letter to the Editor. Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology. 2016;58:98-99. Consensus Classifications of the Gross Motor, Manual Ability, and Communication Function Classifi...

AIM The aim of this study was to describe the course of motor performance and analyse its relationship with motor capacity over a period of 3 years in 104 children (66 males, 38 females; 43% of those initially invited) with cerebral palsy (CP) aged 9, 11, and 13 years at the start of the study. Forty-one had hemiplegia, 42 diplegia, 21 tetraplegia; 83 spastic CP, 17 dyskinetic/mixed, and four a...

OBJECTIVE This study aimed to evaluate gross motor function and hand function in children with cerebral palsy to explore their association with epilepsy and mental capacity. MATERIAL & METHODS The research investigating the association between gross and fine motor function and the presence of epilepsy and/or mental impairment was conducted on a group of 83 children (45 girls, 38 boys). Among ...

PURPOSE To develop and evaluate an expanded version of the Hammersmith Functional Motor Scale allowing for evaluation of ambulatory SMA patients. PROCEDURES Thirty-eight patients with SMA type II or III were evaluated using the Gross Motor Function Measure and the Hammersmith Functional Motor Scale. Based on statistical and clinical criteria, we selected 13 Gross Motor Function Measure items ...

PURPOSE To examine whether children with specific language impairment (SLI) differ from normally developing peers in motor skills, especially those skills related to timing. METHOD Standard measures of gross and fine motor development were obtained. Furthermore, finger and hand movements were recorded while children engaged in 4 different timing tasks, including tapping and drawing circles in...

one of the basic motor skills in childhood is manipulation skills. gross motor manipulation is a person's relationship with the objects and has this feature: force is applied to an object or the force of an object is absorbed. the aim of this study was to examine the effect of a selected motor program including team traditional games as motor experiences on manipulation skills development ...