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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Hsu, Hsin-jen
• Tseng, Yu-Ting

Titel

Impaired motor skills and proprioceptive function in Mandarin-speaking children with developmental language disorder

Ist Teil von

• Brain and language, 2024-04, Vol.251, p.105390-105390, Article 105390

Ort / Verlag

Netherlands: Elsevier Inc

Erscheinungsjahr

2024

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MEDLINE

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• •Impaired motor function of Mandarin-speaking children with DLD.•The DLD group exhibited higher proprioceptive bias than control peers.•The DLD group showed lower proprioceptive precision than control peers.•Proprioceptive bias is associated with motor function in the children. This study examined proprioceptive acuity and its relationship with motor function in Mandarin-speaking children with and without developmental language disorder (DLD). Fifteen children aged 9–12 years with DLD and 15 age- and sex-matched typically developing (TD) children participated in this study. Children’s motor function was assessed using the second edition of the Movement Assessment Battery for Children (MABC-2). Their proprioceptive acuity was measured based on the absolute error (i.e., proprioceptive bias) and variable error (i.e., proprioceptive precision) when performing joint position matching tasks. Compared with the TD group, the DLD group exhibited impaired motor function and poorer proprioceptive acuity, as evidenced by the lower scores on the MABC-2 and the higher rates of absolute and variable errors in the joint position matching tasks. A significant association between the proprioceptive bias (absolute error) and the MABC-2 total score was also observed in the combined cohort of children with and without DLD. We conclude that DLD is associated with proprioceptive dysfunction.