Effectiveness of neuromotor task training for children with developmental coordination disorder: a pilot study.

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The aim of this pilot study was to evaluate the effectiveness of a Neuromotor Task Training (NTT), recently developed for the treatment of children with Developmental Coordination Disorder (DCD) by pediatric physical therapists in the Netherlands. NTT is a task-oriented treatment program based upon recent insights from motor control and motor learning research. Ten children with DCD (intervention group) were tested before and after 9 and 18 treatment sessions on the Movement ABC and a dysgraphia scale in order to measure the effectiveness of treatment on gross and fine motor skills in general and handwriting in particular. Five children (no-treatment control group) were tested twice with a time lag of nine weeks on the Movement ABC in order to measure spontaneous improvement. No improvement was measured for the children in the no-treatment control group, whereas a significant improvement was found for children in the intervention group for both quality of handwriting and performance on the Movement ABC after 18 treatment sessions.

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Schoemaker, M. M., Niemeijer, A. S., Reynders, K., & Smits-Engelsman, B. C. (2003). Effectiveness of neuromotor task training for children with developmental coordination disorder: a pilot study. Neural Plasticity, 10(1–2), 155–163. https://doi.org/10.1155/NP.2003.155

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