Effectiveness of Neuromotor Task Training for Children with Developmental Coordination Disorder: A Pilot Study

[摘要] The aim of this pilot study was to evaluatethe effectiveness of a Neuromotor TaskTraining (NTT), recently developed for thetreatment of children with DevelopmentalCoordination Disorder (DCD) by pediatricphysical therapists in the Netherlands. NTT isa task-oriented treatment program basedupon recent insights from motor control andmotor learning research. Ten children withDCD (intervention group) were tested beforeand after 9 and 18 treatment sessions on theMovement ABC and a dysgraphia scale inorder to measure the effectiveness oftreatment on gross and fine motor skills ingeneral and handwriting in particular. Fivechildren (no-treatment control group) weretested twice with a time lag of nine weeks onthe Movement ABC in order to measurespontaneous improvement. No improvementwas measured for the children in the notreatmentcontrol group, whereas a significantimprovement was found for children in theintervention group for both quality ofhandwriting and performance on theMovement ABC after 18 treatment sessions.

[学科分类] 精神健康和精神病学