Loras Håvard, Sigmundsson Hermundur, Stensdotter Ann-Katrin, Talcott Joel B
Sør-Trøndelag University College, Trondheim, Norway.
Sør-Trøndelag University College, Trondheim, Norway; Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway.
PLoS One. 2014 Jun 3;9(6):e98224. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0098224. eCollection 2014.
Impaired postural control has been associated with poor reading skills, as well as with lower performance on measures of attention and motor control variables that frequently co-occur with reading difficulties. Measures of balance and motor control have been incorporated into several screening batteries for developmental dyslexia, but it is unclear whether the relationship between such skills and reading manifests as a behavioural continuum across the range of abilities or is restricted to groups of individuals with specific disorder phenotypes. Here were obtained measures of postural control alongside measures of reading, attention and general cognitive skills in a large sample of young adults (n = 100). Postural control was assessed using centre of pressure (CoP) measurements, obtained over 5 different task conditions. Our results indicate an absence of strong statistical relationships between balance measures with either reading, cognitive or attention measures across the sample as a whole.
姿势控制受损与阅读技能差有关，也与注意力和运动控制变量测量结果较低有关，这些变量常与阅读困难同时出现。平衡和运动控制测量已被纳入几种发育性阅读障碍的筛查组合中，但尚不清楚这些技能与阅读之间的关系是表现为能力范围内的行为连续体，还是仅限于具有特定障碍表型的个体群体。在此，我们对大量年轻成年人（n = 100）进行了姿势控制测量，同时测量了阅读、注意力和一般认知技能。姿势控制通过在5种不同任务条件下获得的压力中心（CoP）测量值进行评估。我们的结果表明，在整个样本中，平衡测量与阅读、认知或注意力测量之间不存在强烈的统计关系。
