Gross Motor Skills and Sports Participation of Children With Visual Impairments |
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| Authors: | Suzanne Houwen Chris Visscher Esther Hartman Koen A.P.M. Lemmink |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Center for Human Movement Sciences and the University Center for Sport, Exercise, and Health , University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen;2. Center for Human Movement Sciences , University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen |
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| Abstract: | Gross motor skill performance of children with visual impairments and its association with the degree of visual impairment and sports participation was examined. Twenty children with visual impairments (M age = 9.2 years, SD =1.5) and 100 sighted children (M age = 9.1 years, SD = 1.5) from mainstream schools participated. The results showed that children with visual impairments had significantly lower object control but not locomotor skill scores than the sighted children. No significant differences were found between children with a moderate and severe visual impairment. Children with visual impairments who participated in sports had significantly higher object control skill scores than those who did not. No significant associations between motor skills and sports participation were found in the sighted children. |
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| Keywords: | locomotor skills object control skills school age TGMD-2 |
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