Sims K, Morton J
MRC Cognitive Development Unit, London, UK.
J Child Psychol Psychiatry. 1998 Jul;39(5):731-46.
In previous papers (Sims, Henderson, Hulme, & Morton, 1996a; Sims, Henderson, Morton, & Hulme, 1996b) we have found that the motor skills of clumsy children are capable of significant improvement following relatively brief interventions. Most remarkably, this included a 10-minute intervention while testing the kinaesthetic acuity of the children using a staircase method (Pest). In this paper, we show that Pest testing improves the kinaesthetic acuity of normal children as well. We analyse the available data on the development and improvement of motor skills and kinaesthetic acuity and derive a causal model for the underlying skills. We show that at least three independent cognitive/biological components are required to account for the data. These three components are affected differently by the various interventions that have been tried. We deduce that improvement on a general test of motor impairment can be found as a result of training in kinaesthetic acuity or through other, independent factors.
在之前的论文中（西姆斯、亨德森、休姆和莫顿，1996年a；西姆斯、亨德森、莫顿和休姆，1996年b），我们发现，经过相对短暂的干预后，笨拙儿童的运动技能能够得到显著提高。最引人注目的是，这包括在使用阶梯法（Pest）测试儿童动觉敏锐度时进行的10分钟干预。在本文中，我们表明Pest测试也能提高正常儿童的动觉敏锐度。我们分析了有关运动技能和动觉敏锐度发展与提高的现有数据，并推导了潜在技能的因果模型。我们表明，至少需要三个独立的认知/生物成分来解释这些数据。这三个成分受到各种已尝试干预措施的影响各不相同。我们推断，通过动觉敏锐度训练或其他独立因素，可以在运动损伤的一般测试中发现改善情况。
