OPTIMAL motor teaching strategies employed in physiotherapy for children with developmental coordination disorder: An observational study
Publication year
2024Number of pages
16 p.
Source
Physical and Occupational Therapy in Pediatrics, (2024)ISSN
Annotation
25 september 2024
Publication type
Article / Letter to editor
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SW OZ BSI OLO
Journal title
Physical and Occupational Therapy in Pediatrics
Languages used
English (eng)
Subject
Learning and PlasticityAbstract
To describe the teaching strategies that physiotherapists currently employ in individual therapy sessions for children with DCD using the OPTIMAL theory for motor learning as a framework, focused on (1) autonomy (supporting autonomy vs. therapist-controlled), (2) expectancies (enhancing vs. lowering expectancies), and (3) attention (promoting an internal vs. an external focus of attention). Eighteen physiotherapy sessions were videotaped and analyzed with Noldus The Observer XT using the OPTIMAL Strategies Observational Tool (OSOT). Relative duration (% of session time) and frequency were extracted for teaching strategies related to autonomy, expectancies, and attention. Physiotherapists mostly applied strategies to support autonomy and enhance expectancies in contrast to therapist-controlled strategies, and lowering expectancies. Strategies to promote either an internal or an external focus of attention were used to a similar extent. Furthermore, strategies were frequently combined; physiotherapists often employed more than one teaching strategy at a time. The insight into current physiotherapy teaching practice that this study provides can help inform research and application regarding effective motor teaching for children with DCD. Follow up studies are needed to further investigate how child and task characteristics influence teaching strategy employment and to examine physiotherapists? reasoning behind their choice of strategies.
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