Motor performance and handedness in children with developmental language disorder

Neuropediatrics. 1997 Dec;28(6):324-7. doi: 10.1055/s-2007-973724.

Abstract

Developmental language disorder (DLD) is diagnosed when there is a failure of normal language development in a child with normal nonverbal intelligence. The discussion about additional or causal deficits is controversial. In this study a computer-based motor performance series with a tapping, aiming and pegboard movement task and an additional paper-pencil handedness test were applied to a group of children with DLD of the phonologic-syntactic subtype and with normal nonverbal intelligence to describe the additional motor problems. Furthermore we examined whether our DLD children showed a different handedness. Tapping and pegboard with both hands were significantly impaired in our DLD children. Overall our DLD children did not show a different handedness than the control group.

Publication types

  • Comparative Study

MeSH terms

  • Age Factors
  • Child
  • Child Language*
  • Child, Preschool
  • Female
  • Functional Laterality / physiology*
  • Humans
  • Language Development Disorders / diagnosis*
  • Male
  • Motor Skills / physiology*
  • Neuropsychological Tests
  • Time Factors