Rhythm Effect on Dance Learning in Typical Development Children and Children With Motor Disorders.
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Conditions studied: Cerebral Palsy (CP)
In brief
Cerebral Palsy (CP) or Developmental Coordination Disorder (DCD) leads to motor troubles impacting the everyday life, social participation and academic difficulty . According to some authors, CP and DCD pertain to a same continuum of motor disorders (MD) (Pearsall-Jones et al., 2010).Those children show an alteration in Perceptivo-Motor Procedural Learning (PMPL), corresponding to the acquisition of everyday life skill (for CP: Gagliardi et al., 2011; Gofer-Levi et al., 2013; for DCD: Gheysen et al., 2011; Blais et al., 2018). Also, recommended rehabilitation for this population are based on procedural learnings (for CP: Novak et al., 2013; for DCD: Blank et al., 2019; Inserm, 2019). It's true for dancing which present high evidence to enhance motor, cognitive, psychoaffective and social functions of this children (Cherriere, Martel, et al., 2020; Cherriere, Robert, et al., 2020). Dance is a physical activity that involve procedural learning to memorise movement sequences (choreography). Rhythm can be define as a stimuli repetition at a regular interval (Grahn \& Brett, 2007; Patel, 2003). Recently studies tend to shown that rhythm is essential to enhance motor control and procedural learning (Ghai et al., 2022; Lagarrigue et al., 2021). To validate this hypothesis, the investigators will evaluate typical development children and children with CP MD learning of a dance choreography with and without rhythm.
Key facts
- Study ID
- NCT06137625
- Run by
- University Hospital, Toulouse
- People needed
- 68
- Starts
- 2024-07-02
- Expected to finish
- 2027-01-01
- Last updated by the study team
- 2025-12-31
Who can join
Age: 8 and older, up to 16. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: accepted.
You may qualify if…
- For all the participants:
- Aged from 8 to 16 include.
- Free, informed, written, and signed consent of the holders of parental authority
- Free and informed consent of the minor
- Affiliation with or benefiting from a social security scheme.
- Ability to understand the instructions (investigator's assessment)
- For the participant with Motor disorders (MD):
- For children with CP:
- CP diagnosis
- Gross Motor Function Classification System level between I to IV.
- Manual Ability Classification System level between I to IV.
- For children with DCD:
- A diagnosis of DCD
- For the participant with typical development:
- No CP diagnosis
- No neurological trouble nor functional disfunction including developmental coordination disorder.
You may not qualify if…
- -Autism spectrum disorder diagnosed according to the DSM-5 (APA, 2015)
- Hearing deficiency diagnosed according to the DSM-5 (APA, 2015) or uncorrected hearing deficiency that doesn't allows the participant to hear a music with a sound level between 45 and 70 decibels.
- Visual deficiency diagnosed according to the DSM-5 (APA, 2015)
- Intellectual developmental disorder diagnosed according to the DSM-5 (APA, 2015)
- Behavioural disorders diagnosed according to the DSM-5 (APA, 2015)
- Diagnosed epilepsia
- Pregnancy (check in young pubescent and sexually active women) or breastfeeding.
- Children already include in ongoing interventional study.
- Children with both parent who benefit of legal protection (guardianship, curatorship, safeguard of justice).
Where it is running
- Toulouse Hospital — Toulouse, France (enrolling)
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