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Sequencing, co-ordination and rhythm ability in young children.

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BACKGROUND: Sequencing ability is recognized as a fundamental component in motor co-ordination, language and reading performance. METHODS: Sequencing relationships are studied in a sample of 1013 children selected from an existing data set of 3750. ... (Full abstract text below)

Published 2003Sep in Journal: Child Care Health Dev (Language : eng)

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1. Child Care Health Dev. 2003 Sep;29(5):395-409

Sequencing, co-ordination and rhythm ability in young children.

Haines C

School of Education and Professional Development, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK. chaines@freeuk.cm

BACKGROUND: Sequencing ability is recognized as a fundamental component in motor co-ordination, language and reading performance. METHODS: Sequencing relationships are studied in a sample of 1013 children selected from an existing data set of 3750. Associations are analysed between scores for motor co-ordination tasks and a rhythm repetition task performed in the routine school beginners' medical examination by 4-, 5- and 6-year-old children, and class teachers' assessment of their co-ordination activities and language performance when 6, 7 and 8 years old, together with scores for a routine reading test. RESULTS: Associations are reported between motor tasks and language and reading, and between rhythm repetition and co-ordination activities, language and reading. Associations between successive motor tasks and language and reading are found to be stronger in boys, and those between hopping and reading stronger in girls. Associations between the rhythm repetition task and co-ordination activities, language and reading are also all found to be stronger in girls. DISCUSSION: Discussion finds a place for ball-catching as a sequencing task, and for sequencing ability as a component of handwriting skills. Discussion also attributes the findings of gender differences to an experiential difference in play activity, and advances a variant of the rhythm repetition task for use in further exploration of sequencing ability in young children.

PMID : 12904248 [PubMed - Indexed for MEDLINE]

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Affiliation: School of Education and Professional Development, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK. chaines@freeuk.cm

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