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Hand Clapping Games and Motor Abilities
Would you like children to have neater handwriting, write better and have better spelling? A recent study suggests teaching hand clapping games to children to improve motor and academic abilities. For ten weeks, two groups of children, at different elementary schools, participated in either a music appreciation program or hand clapping songs training. According to […]
Self Regulation and Academic Abilities
More research is being published in the Early Childhood Research Quarterly on self regulation skills in young children. The researchers studied 1298 children from birth through first grade. After controlling for at risk factors such as ethnic minority status, low maternal education, low family income and chronic depressive symptoms in the mother, children with strong […]
Disadvantaged Preschoolers Exhibit Gross Motor Delays
Two recent studies report that disadvantaged preschoolers exhibit gross motor delays on the Test of Gross Motor Development – 2. Goodway et. al. reported in the Research Quarterly for Exercise and Science that 86% of Midwestern and southwestern preschoolers were delayed in locomotor and object control skills (Woodward and Yun report in Early Child Development […]
Track Physical Activity with the iPhone
There is an interesting free app for the iPhone entitled Walk n’ Play. Developed by Chinmay Manohar in the Department Endocrinology, Nutrition and Diabetes of the Mayo Clinic, Walk n’ Play tracks normal day to day physical activity. Once you put in the height and weight of the user, it tracks your movements and tells […]
Water Intake and Cognitive Performance
With the weather getting warmer, parents and school staff need to remember to remind children to drink plenty of water. Not only will water hydrate their bodies it appears to effect cognitive performance as well. Three articles from Appetite, report on the benefits of children drinking water and its effects on cognitive performance: 1. Edmonds […]
Onset of Autism and Effects on Child’s Development
The Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders will be publishing research on when and how autism symptoms appear and its effects on childhood development. Data was collected from 2720 parents via questionnaires. Children were divided into three groups: 1. Regression of skills – 44% of the children exhibited a regression of social, cognitive or communication […]
Wii Games for Different Abilities
Without trying out each of the Wii games, it can be hard to determine specific games to recommend for children. Ability Technology has provided an overview of the skills that 6 popular Wii games require. The table describes each game and then rates the following areas: cognitive, physical/sensory, psychosocial, adaptation, set up and general ease […]
What Behaviors Are Sensory Based?
Therapists are constantly answering this question – are behaviors in children sensory based? There are different ways of finding an answer to this question. One quick tool to start with is the Motivation Assessment Scale. This was developed by V. Mark Durrand PhD and Daniel B Crimmins PhD in 1986. It consists of 16 questions […]
Bayley III Accuracy for Detecting Development Delay
For any of you who use the Bayley Scales of Infant and Toddler Development (Bayley-III), recent research indicated that the scale “seriously underestimates developmental delay in 2 year old Australian children”. The subjects were 221 children who were born extremely pre term ( References: Peter J. Anderson; Cinzia R. De Luca; Esther Hutchinson; Gehan Roberts; […]
Gender Differences and Head Movements
Gait and Posture published research on gender differences in head stabilization during level walking in youth. Fifteen females and fifteen males, ages 8-11, underwent gait analysis walking at their own speed. Sensors were placed at the pelvis, shoulders and head. The results indicated no differences in acceleration values between the genders at the pelvis and […]