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.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
BASIC_SCIENCE
Masking
DOUBLE
Enrollment
68
All children learn one dance choreographie with regular rhythm music.The pre-recorded choreography is displayed on a large screen in front of the child. The child practices the choreography by imitating the models in order to learn the sequence movements.
All children learn one dance choreographie without regular rhythm music.The pre-recorded choreography is displayed on a large screen in front of the child. The child practices the choreography by imitating the models in order to learn the sequence movements.
Toulouse Hospital
Toulouse, France
RECRUITINGRetention score of the choreography
Number of movements in the choreography performed correctly and in order after practice is analysed by video using a standardised observation grid scored independently and blind to the condition by two trained judges.
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the effect of regular rhythm on Perceptivo-Motor Procedural Learning (PMPL)
The PMPL is measured by an informatised and standardised test (EVAL\_App\_Kids test)
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the effect of regular rhythm on sensorimotor function
the effect is measured by rhythm perception and production task
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the effect of regular rhythm on cognitive function
the effect is measured by informatised test on attention and executive function
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the effect of regular rhythm on psychoaffective function
the effect is measured by Intrinsic Motivation Inventory questionnaire (IMI)
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