Improvement in children's fine motor skills following a computerized typing intervention.

ABSTRACT: Children spend a large proportion of their school day engaged in tasks that require manual dexterity. If children experience difficulties with their manual dexterity skills it can have a consequential effect on their academic achievement. The first aim of this paper was to explore whether an online interactive typing intervention could improve children's scores on a standardised measure of manual dexterity. The second aim was to implement a serial reaction time tapping task as an index of children's finger movement learning, and to see whether performance on this task would improve after the intervention. Seventy-eight typically developing children aged between 8 and 10 were tested at their school on the pre-intervention Movement Assessment Battery for Children (2nd edition; MABC-2) and ta

SUBMITTER: McGlashan HL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5716426 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature