DCD as a Model for Developmental Disorders: Compliance Control and Handwriting

描述(由申请者提供)：本申请请求支持一个关于发育协调障碍(DCD)和感觉-运动学习的基础和临床研究项目。这个项目的主要目标是了解如何克服感觉-运动缺陷造成的有效运动学习障碍，使患有DCD和其他通常与DCD并存的发育障碍的儿童能够学习良好的顺从手动动作，特别是手写。这项拟议的研究将涉及感觉-运动学习的行为研究。四个具体目标将被研究：(1)辅助学习；(2)从辅助练习和保持中概括；(3)被动练习与主动练习；以及(4)特定任务练习。研究结果将为解释DCD和其他起源于感觉-运动障碍的共病发育障碍儿童所面临的问题提供更强有力的概念和理论基础。该项目的结果也将对设计感官运动障碍儿童的治疗训练具有重要的直接临床意义。此外，这些结果有望使未来的努力能够追求感觉-运动缺陷对认知功能和情感体验的发育影响。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This application requests support for a program of basic and clinical research on Developmental Coordination Disorder (DCD) and sensori-motor learning. The primary objective of this project is to understand how barriers to effective motor learning created by sensori-motor deficits can be overcome to enable children with DCD, and other developmental disorders often co-morbid with DCD, to learn to perform good compliant manual actions and especially, handwriting. The proposed research will involve behavioral studies of sensori-motor learning. Four specific aims will be studied: (1) learning with assistance; (2) generalization from assisted practice and retention; (3) passive versus active practice; and (4) task specific practice. The research findings will provide a much stronger conceptual and theoretical basis for explaining the problems faced by children with DCD and other co-morbid developmental disorders with origins in sensori-motor deficits. The results from this project will also have important direct clinical implications for design of therapeutic training for children with sensori-motor disorders. Furthermore, the results are anticipated to enable future efforts to pursue the developmental effects of sensori-motor deficits on cognitive function and emotional experience.