Associations between Academic and Motor Performance in a Heterogeneous Sample of Children with Learning Disabilities

Autor/inn/en	Vuijk, Pieter Jelle; Hartman, Esther; Mombarg, Remo; Scherder, Erik; Visscher, Chris
Titel	Associations between Academic and Motor Performance in a Heterogeneous Sample of Children with Learning Disabilities
Quelle	In: Journal of Learning Disabilities, 44 (2011) 3, S.276-282 (7 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0022-2194
DOI	10.1177/0022219410378446
Schlagwörter	Spelling; Learning Disabilities; Intelligence Quotient; Motor Development; Academic Achievement; Special Education; Psychomotor Skills; Correlation; Mathematics Achievement; Heterogeneous Grouping; Foreign Countries; Reading Difficulties; Scores; Reading Ability; Perceptual Motor Coordination; Sample Size; Clinical Diagnosis; Children; Netherlands; Beery Developmental Test of Visual Motor Integration + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Schreibweise; Learning handicap; Lernbehinderung; Intelligenzquotient; Motorische Entwicklung; Schulleistung; Special needs education; Sonderpädagogik; Sonderschulwesen; Psychomotorische Aktivität; Korrelation; Mathmatics sikills; Mathmatics achievement; Mathematical ability; Mathematische Kompetenz; Ausland; Reading difficulty; Leseschwierigkeit; Reading competence; Lesekompetenz; Körperkoordination; Child; Kind; Kinder; Niederlande
Abstract	A heterogeneous sample of 137 school-aged children with learning disabilities (IQ greater than 80) attending special needs schools was examined on the "Movement Assessment Battery for Children" (MABC). The results show that compared to the available norm scores, 52.6% of the children tested performed below the 15th percentile on manual dexterity, 40.9% on ball skills, and 33.7% on balance skills. Furthermore, after controlling for IQ, significant small to moderate partial correlations were found between spelling and mathematics and the MABC total score, as well as small to moderate correlations between mathematics and balance, between reading and ball skills, and between spelling and manual dexterity. The present findings are compared with previously reported results obtained in more homogenous groups, and based on the resultant relationships between academic performance and motor development, recommendations for future motor intervention studies are made. (Contains 4 tables.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10