). These negative effects may lessen the likelihood that childhood cancer survivors will participate in health-promoting behaviors ( Ness, Wall, Oakes, Robison, & Gurney, 2006 ). Recent research shows that childhood cancer survivors engage in less physical activity (PA) than their healthy siblings ( Ford
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Cycling Through Cancer: Exploring Childhood Cancer Survivors’ Experiences of Well- and Ill-Being
Shaunna M. Burke, Jennifer Brunet, Amanda Wurz, Christina Butler, and Andrea Utley
Comparing Motor Competence of Sex- and Age-Matched Youth With Intellectual Disability From Brazil and the United States
Fabio Bertapelli, Ken Pitetti, Ruth A. Miller, Adam Jaeger, Michael Loovis, Wilson D. do Amaral-Junior, Marcos M. de Barros-Filho, and Gil Guerra-Junior
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Promoting Physical Activity and Fitness: Supporting Individuals With Childhood-Onset Disabilities
Myung Ha Sur
disabilities. However, it can pose difficulties to those unfamiliar with searching and interpreting empirical literature when applying it to real-life situations. The book Promoting Physical Activity and Fitness: Supporting Individuals With Childhood-Onset Disabilities, edited by Désirée B. Maltais and
Exploring the Interaction of Disability Status and Childhood Predictors of Physical Activity and Sport Participation: An Exploratory Decision-Tree Analysis
Samantha M. Ross, Ellen Smit, Joonkoo Yun, Kathleen R. Bogart, Bridget E. Hatfield, and Samuel W. Logan
Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health—Child and Youth version (ICF-CY; WHO, 2007 ) framework. Figure 1 illustrates how childhood PA determinants map onto the ICF-CY framework (adapted from Rimmer, 2006 ; Ross et al., 2016 ). The ICF-CY models disability as a dynamic child
Social Skill Outcomes Following Physical Activity–Based Interventions for Individuals on the Autism Spectrum: A Scoping Review Spanning Young Childhood Through Young Adulthood
Andrew M. Colombo-Dougovito and Jihyun Lee
respect to the mean age and the age range of the participants. There was a large age range among the included studies that spanned from young childhood (e.g., 3 years old) to young adulthood (e.g., 24 years old), though the mean age from calculatable data was around 8.09 years old ( SD = 2.99). Typically
Seizures and Epilepsy in Childhood: A Guide (3rd ed.)
Lauriece L. Zittel
Convergent and Divergent Validity Between the KTK and MOT 4-6 Motor Tests in Early Childhood
Farid Bardid, Floris Huyben, Frederik J.A. Deconinck, Kristine De Martelaer, Jan Seghers, and Matthieu Lenoir
The aim of this study was to investigate the convergent and divergent validity between the Body Coordination Test for Children (KTK) and the Motor Proficiency Test for 4- to 6-Year-Old Children (MOT 4-6). A total of 638 children (5–6 yr old) took part in the study. The results showed a moderately positive association between the total scores of both tests (r s = .63). Moreover, the KTK total score correlated more highly with the MOT 4-6 gross motor score than with the MOT 4-6 fine motor score (r s = .62 vs. .32). Levels of agreement were moderate when identifying children with moderate or severe motor problems and low at best when detecting children with higher motor-competence levels. This study provides evidence of convergent and divergent validity between the KTK and MOT 4-6. However, given the moderate to low levels of agreement, either measurement may lead to possible categorization errors. Therefore, it is recommended that children’s motor competence not be judged based on the result of a single test.
The Effects of an Integrative, Universally Designed Motor Skill Intervention for Young Children With and Without Disabilities
Sally Taunton Miedema, Ali Brian, Adam Pennell, Lauren Lieberman, Larissa True, Collin Webster, and David Stodden
design. The study took place at a public early childhood center within a rural school district in the Southeastern United States. The school district and center strived to provide the highest quality educational services to exceptional students by implementing research and standards-based interventions
An Activity-Based Approach to Physical Education for Preschool Children with Disabilities
Martin E. Block and Timothy D. Davis
Traditional motor development programs for preschool children with disabilities usually utilize a behavior-analytic approach in which children are given specific training and instruction on identified IEP objectives. While this approach has its merits in terms of time-on-task and focus on critical IEP objectives, it is not consistent with current developmentally appropriate philosophies in early childhood education. One of the newer techniques suggested by early childhood educators as a “best practice” in educating young children is an activity-based or play-based approach. Children still have individually determined goals and objectives, but these goals and objectives are “embedded” in a variety of child-directed play activities. The teacher acts as a facilitator, encouraging the child to practice individual goals while exploring the environment. The purpose of this article is to introduce the concept of activity-based intervention and provide examples of how it can be implemented within a motor development/physical education context for preschool children with disabilities.
Erratum: Bardid et al. (2016)
In the article by Bardid F., Huyben F., Deconinck F.J.A., De Martelaer K., Seghers J., & Lenoir M., “Convergent and Divergent Validity Between the KTK and MOT 4-6 Motor Tests in Early Childhood, ” in Adapted Pyhsical Activity Quarterly, 33(1), the wrong DOI was printed. The DOI for this article is http://dx.doi.org/10.1123/APAQ.2014-0228. The online version has been corrected.
