Primal Health Databank: Study
| Entry No: | 0788 |
| Title: | Baby swimming: exploring the effects of early intervention on subsequent motor abilities |
| Author(s): | Sigmundsson H, Hopkins B |
| Reference: | Child Care Health Dev. 2010 May;36(3):428-30. Epub 2009 Aug 31 |
| Place of Study: | Norway |
| Abstract: | A range of motor abilities was examined in 4-year-old children who had previously participated in a programme of baby swimming (n= 19) and compared with a matched group of coevals who had not had this experience (n= 19).
As predicted from the nature of the exercises that comprise the programme, the effects of baby swimming were restricted to abilities associated with prehension and balance.
Suggestions are made as to how the theme of this hypothesis-generating, demonstration study can be pursued in the future with more rigorous experimental controls and applications to children with disabilities and impairments |
| Keyword(s): | baby swimming, motor development |
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