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Upper-Limb Rehabilitation with Adaptive Video Games for Preschool Children with Developmental Disabilities
Hsieh HC, Lin HY, Chiu WH, Meng LF & Liu CK.
American Journal of Occupational Therapy 2015 Jul-Aug;69(4):6904290020p1-5.
doi: 10.5014/ajot.2015.014480.
Link to abstract: www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26114467
Objective: For children with developmental disabilities, does active video game play, compared before and after the intervention, increase motor function and visual-motor integration?
Method: 20 children with developmental disability (Beery-Buktenica Developmental Test of Visual Motor Integration (VMI) score of less than 80) played a novel video game for 30 minutes, 3 times a week for 5 weeks. Before and after, the children were scored on VMI and the Peabody Developmental Motor Scale – 2 (PDMS-2).
Findings: Game play had a positive and significant effect on visual-motor integration as measured by the VMI, and on motor function as measured on the fine motor quotient, gross motor quotient and total motor quotient subscales of the PDMS-2.