Motor Competence between Children with and without Additional Learning Needs: A Cross-Sectional Population-Level Study
The aim of this study was to examine associations in motor competence between children with additional learning needs (ALN) and typically developing children. This cross-sectional study involved a nationally representative cohort of 4555 children (48.98% boys; 11.35 ± 0.65 years) from sixty-five sch...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10529022/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37761498 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/children10091537 |
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author | Richards, Amie B. Barker, Harriet G. Williams, Emily Swindell, Nils Mackintosh, Kelly A. Tyler, Richard Griffiths, Lucy J. Foweather, Lawrence Stratton, Gareth |
author_facet | Richards, Amie B. Barker, Harriet G. Williams, Emily Swindell, Nils Mackintosh, Kelly A. Tyler, Richard Griffiths, Lucy J. Foweather, Lawrence Stratton, Gareth |
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description | The aim of this study was to examine associations in motor competence between children with additional learning needs (ALN) and typically developing children. This cross-sectional study involved a nationally representative cohort of 4555 children (48.98% boys; 11.35 ± 0.65 years) from sixty-five schools across Wales (UK). Demographic data were collected from schools, and children were assessed using the Dragon Challenge assessment of motor competence, which consists of nine tasks completed in a timed circuit. A multi-nominal multi-level model with random intercept was fitted to explore the proficiency between children with ALN and those without. In all nine motor competence tasks, typically developing children demonstrated higher levels of proficiency than their peers with ALN, with these associations evident after accounting for age, sex, ethnicity, and socioeconomic status. This study highlights motor competence inequalities at a population level and emphasises the need for policymakers, practitioners, and researchers to prioritise motor competence development, particularly for children with ALN. |
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spelling | pubmed-105290222023-09-28 Motor Competence between Children with and without Additional Learning Needs: A Cross-Sectional Population-Level Study Richards, Amie B. Barker, Harriet G. Williams, Emily Swindell, Nils Mackintosh, Kelly A. Tyler, Richard Griffiths, Lucy J. Foweather, Lawrence Stratton, Gareth Children (Basel) Article The aim of this study was to examine associations in motor competence between children with additional learning needs (ALN) and typically developing children. This cross-sectional study involved a nationally representative cohort of 4555 children (48.98% boys; 11.35 ± 0.65 years) from sixty-five schools across Wales (UK). Demographic data were collected from schools, and children were assessed using the Dragon Challenge assessment of motor competence, which consists of nine tasks completed in a timed circuit. A multi-nominal multi-level model with random intercept was fitted to explore the proficiency between children with ALN and those without. In all nine motor competence tasks, typically developing children demonstrated higher levels of proficiency than their peers with ALN, with these associations evident after accounting for age, sex, ethnicity, and socioeconomic status. This study highlights motor competence inequalities at a population level and emphasises the need for policymakers, practitioners, and researchers to prioritise motor competence development, particularly for children with ALN. MDPI 2023-09-11 /pmc/articles/PMC10529022/ /pubmed/37761498 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/children10091537 Text en © 2023 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Richards, Amie B. Barker, Harriet G. Williams, Emily Swindell, Nils Mackintosh, Kelly A. Tyler, Richard Griffiths, Lucy J. Foweather, Lawrence Stratton, Gareth Motor Competence between Children with and without Additional Learning Needs: A Cross-Sectional Population-Level Study |
title | Motor Competence between Children with and without Additional Learning Needs: A Cross-Sectional Population-Level Study |
title_full | Motor Competence between Children with and without Additional Learning Needs: A Cross-Sectional Population-Level Study |
title_fullStr | Motor Competence between Children with and without Additional Learning Needs: A Cross-Sectional Population-Level Study |
title_full_unstemmed | Motor Competence between Children with and without Additional Learning Needs: A Cross-Sectional Population-Level Study |
title_short | Motor Competence between Children with and without Additional Learning Needs: A Cross-Sectional Population-Level Study |
title_sort | motor competence between children with and without additional learning needs: a cross-sectional population-level study |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10529022/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37761498 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/children10091537 |
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