Effect of sport activities on perceptual-motor skills among obese Down syndrome children

4^th International Conference on Nursing & Healthcare

October 05-07, 2015 San Francisco, USA

Abdollah Ghasemi and Abdollah Naghizadeh

Islamic Azad University, Iran

Posters-Accepted Abstracts: J Nurs Care

Abstract :

Objective: The aim of present study was to investigate of eight weeks selected sport training on perceptual-motor skills among obese Down syndrome and typical girls. Material & Methods: In this quasi-experimental study 22 obese Down syndrome and 22 obese typical 7 to 13 years girls who were selected purposely were participated in 24 purposeful sport training sessions. All groups, before and after training sessions were assessed with Bruininks-Oseretsky Test of Motor Proficiency. Results: All participants developed their gross motor skills significantly (p<0.05) but not in fine skills. Also, the results showed that obese Down syndrome children had significantly (p<0.05) higher progress in gross and fine motor skills. Conclusion: Despite of variety of genetic and environmental constraint, obese Down syndrome children can develop their perceptual-motor skills via purposeful sport training that contain play and leisure. Necessity of early perceptual-motor intervention is discussed.

Biography :

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