Hand praxis in children with developmental coordination disorder

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Event Abstract Back to Event Hand praxis in children with developmental coordination disorder Kuei-Yung Hung1* 1 Chang-Gung University, Taiwan Hand praxis is a part of body scheme. Depending on different stimulations, hand, objects and space interact with each other to achieve a purposeful goal. If hand praxis is impaired, the basic structure of hand movements is also damaged, which lead to affect distinct imitation, object use and meaningful/meaningless gestures. Normal children can develop appropriate finger discrimination ability and hand praxis. Finger discrimination ability can discriminate and name different stimulations and also assist the processing of hand movements. DCD (developmental coordination disorder) manifest motor deficits in nearly every motor domain. DCD have specific deficits in sensory-motor integration and praxis, they cannot plan and execute an appropriate motor performance, which cause their gestures, objects use and imitation to be “clumsy”. If DCD impair in hand praxis, their fine motor performances are also affected. The study aims to investigate the hand praxis in 5-7 years DCD and compares to age-match normal control group. By characterizing the performance and error patterns in transitive gestures and transitive pretense, the research suppose to analysis the developmental process of hand praxis in DCD and compare the performance differences in two task demands (transitive gestures and transitive pretense). Conference: 10th International Conference on Cognitive Neuroscience, Bodrum, Turkey, 1 Sep - 5 Sep, 2008. Presentation Type: Poster Presentation Topic: Neuropsychiatric Disorders Citation: Hung K (2008). Hand praxis in children with developmental coordination disorder. Conference Abstract: 10th International Conference on Cognitive Neuroscience. doi: 10.3389/conf.neuro.09.2009.01.408 Copyright: The abstracts in this collection have not been subject to any Frontiers peer review or checks, and are not endorsed by Frontiers. They are made available through the Frontiers publishing platform as a service to conference organizers and presenters. The copyright in the individual abstracts is owned by the author of each abstract or his/her employer unless otherwise stated. Each abstract, as well as the collection of abstracts, are published under a Creative Commons CC-BY 4.0 (attribution) licence (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) and may thus be reproduced, translated, adapted and be the subject of derivative works provided the authors and Frontiers are attributed. For Frontiers’ terms and conditions please see https://www.frontiersin.org/legal/terms-and-conditions. Received: 17 Dec 2008; Published Online: 17 Dec 2008. * Correspondence: Kuei-Yung Hung, Chang-Gung University, Tao-Yuan, Taiwan, cocalove@gmail.com Login Required This action requires you to be registered with Frontiers and logged in. To register or login click here. Abstract Info Abstract The Authors in Frontiers Kuei-Yung Hung Google Kuei-Yung Hung Google Scholar Kuei-Yung Hung PubMed Kuei-Yung Hung Related Article in Frontiers Google Scholar PubMed Abstract Close Back to top Javascript is disabled. Please enable Javascript in your browser settings in order to see all the content on this page.