Characteristics of motor imagery function in elementary school students with Down's syndrome

Abstract

This study aims to examine the characteristics of motor imagery function in children with Down's syndrome (DS children: age9.6±1.9, IQ52.3±10.4, total10). After a series of bodily movements being presented for them and the normal school aged children, this study required for them to select cards where a series of movement was drawn appropriately, and to express a series of it. The author categorized the participants into the four groups which were the DS group, a lower grade (age7.5±0,08, total38), a middle grade (age9.5±0.08, total36), and a higher grade (age11.5±0.08, total38) and compared each group. The results showed that the rate of the maximum card misidentification in the DS group exposed further from the groups of normal children. Therefore, the undeveloped body schema, short term memory and sequential processing in the DS group might reflect this factor.