Gaze training supports self-organization of movement coordination in children with developmental coordination disorder.

ABSTRACT: Children with developmental coordination disorder (DCD) struggle with the acquisition of coordinated motor skills. This paper adopts a dynamical systems perspective to assess how individual coordination solutions might emerge following an intervention that trained accurate gaze control in a throw and catch task. Kinematic data were collected from six upper body sensors from twenty-one children with DCD, using a 3D motion analysis system, before and after a 4-week training intervention. Covariance matrices between kinematic measures were computed and distances between pairs of covariance matrices calculated using Riemannian geometry. Multidimensional scaling was then used to analyse differences between coordination patterns. The gaze trained group revealed significantly higher total coordin

SUBMITTER: Slowinski P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6368583 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature