The study was meant to evaluate the relationship between motor skills, perceptual ability and visual-motor integration, together with an assessment of general cognitive functioning, in a sample of children who were situated at the lower and upper bounds of motor abilities within a non-pathological population. These children were not referred either for DCD or for other learning disabilities, but they could be considered at risk for DCD, because of their poor performances on motor tasks.
The evaluation of which abilities are still preserved in this population and which are, in contrast, already impaired could provide a contribution to the evaluation of the onset of the disease. If perceptual deficits have a causal relationship with motor impairments, then, even in a mild form, they should be observed in participants at risk for DCD. On the other hand, if motor impairments do not have a causal link with perceptual impairments, then they should not become manifest as a mild form of motor awkwardness.
The study was meant to evaluate the relationship between motor skills, perceptual ability and visual-motor integration, together with an assessment of general cognitive functioning, in a sample of children who were situated at the lower and upper bounds of motor abilities within a non-pathological population. These children were not referred either for DCD or for other learning disabilities, but they could be considered at risk for DCD, because of their poor performances on motor tasks. The evaluation of which abilities are still preserved in this population and which are, in contrast, already impaired could provide a contribution to the evaluation of the onset of the disease. If perceptual deficits have a causal relationship with motor impairments, then, even in a mild form, they should be observed in participants at risk for DCD. On the other hand, if motor impairments do not have a causal link with perceptual impairments, then they should not become manifest as a mild form of motor awkwardness.
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