2003 Volume 1 Issue 1 Pages 25-31
The present study investigated to determine whether motor learning of ball skills in young children with developmental coordination disorder (DCD) differently from young children without DCD. There were 18 participants between the age of 4 and 6 years; 9 young children with DCD, and 9 young children without DCD. The young children with DCD were identified by teacher rating and by the assessment tool (MABC). All participants performed two-handed rolling a ball to the center of goal from 3m, 6 trials for each of two different settings, for a total of 12 trials. Immediately after practice trials, all participants performed 3 trials to test for transfer. These data showed that DCD groups made their performance that were both more inaccurate and much more variable than controls. Results suggested that although practice was effective a bit for young children with DCD to improve their performance, DCD groups were difficult to adapt themselves to situation of novel tasks.
