Estudo da correlação entre coordenação motora e habilidades motoras de pessoas com sindrome de down / Correlations study between the motor coordination and the motor habilities of people with down syndrome

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2009

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The present study has as its main objective to evaluate the motor coordination of kids with down syndrome. It were used the KTK tests of Kiphard and Schilling (1974) and the TGMD-2 - TEST OF GROSS MOTOR DEVELOPMENT of Ulrich (2000) as instruments of evaluation. However we decided to evidence the motor coordination related to the chronological age and to the sex of the evaluated sample, as well as verify if there is meaningful motor coordination correlating the two tests. The test was taking with 10 kids with Down syndrome with the centesimal age between 5.37 and 12.82 years old, being 4 boys and 6 girls, all of them enrolled in special schools. To compare boys and girls according to the coordinative variables it was applied the test t of Student to independent samples. The meaningful level assumed was of 5% (p<0,05). The results revealed that, even though the centesimal age of the males are close to the female genders, a meaningful difference was verified regarding to the development between genders, knowing that, boys presented better results of the TMGD-2 test, which is the inverse result that was obtained on the KTK test, in which girls obtained superior results than the boys. Regarding to the correlation between tests, it has been observed that a meaningful correlation of the results between the two boy tests and a meaningful result between the two girl tests, indicating that, this population can show similar results in both motor tests presented in this study. However, constant researches may and should be done in the area of adapted Physical Education with the objective to improve and enriched the knowledge of the professional and students of this field, as well as, familiars of Down syndrome people

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sindrome de down syndrome evaluation capacidade motora down instrumentos de avaliação motor capacity

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