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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Autores principales: 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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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2023
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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
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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/).
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Foweather, Lawrence
Stratton, Gareth
Motor Competence between Children with and without Additional Learning Needs: A Cross-Sectional Population-Level Study
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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
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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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