Gaze behaviour during walking in young adults with developmental coordination disorder.

CONCLUSIONS AND IMPLICATIONS: Despite adequate walking performance in daily situations in young adults with DCD, fundamental control deficits persist into adulthood. WHAT THIS PAPER ADDS?: This paper is the first to demonstrate differences in gaze behaviour between young adults with DCD and typically developing individuals in a task that resembles a task of daily living, as previous research focused on laboratory tasks. This is a valuable finding as DCD has a clear impact on the daily life. Furthermore, this study demonstrated that the fundamental control deficits of DCD persist into adulthood despite frequent performance and practice of these daily tasks. Lastly, these findings might contribute to the therapeutic potential of gaze training interventions to improve the daily functioning of children and adults with DCD. PMID: 32452432 [PubMed - in process]
Source: Human Movement Science - Category: Neurology Authors: Tags: Hum Mov Sci Source Type: research