Movement Education for Children With Motor Disabilities Who Have Sleep Problems

Abstract

The present article reports a study of sleep problems and motor development in children with motor disabilities that details the relation between the children's specific sleep problems, as reported by their parents on recall questionnaires, and their achievement of movement milestones, as assessed by Movement Education Program Assessment (MEPA-II). The results confirmed that there is a significant correlation between sleep problems and motor development. The higher the level of motor ability the children achieved, the less likely they were to experience sleep problems. Additionally, the findings shed light on which movement abilities are associated with which sleep problems. It is suggested that this information may have valuable implications for individual movement education programs designed to meet the needs of individual children. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2012 APA, all rights reserved)(journal abstract)