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tDCS and Motor Learning in Children With DCD

NCT04490187 · Status: UNKNOWN · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 14

Last updated 2020-07-29

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Summary

Children with a neurodevelopmental condition called developmental coordination disorder (DCD) struggle to learn motor skills and perform daily activities, such as tying shoelaces, printing, riding a bicycle, or playing sports. Evidence suggests that motor-based interventions combined with non-invasive brain stimulation to the motor cortex (transcranial direct-current stimulation, tDCS) has been effective in improving motor skills in children with cerebral palsy and other neurodevelopmental disorders, but few studies have examined tDCS in chidlren with DCD. The purpose of this randomized, blinded, sham-controlled interventional trial is to explore the effectiveness of anodal tDCS over M1 combined with a motor learning task in increasing motor skill learning in children with DCD.

Conditions

  • Developmental Coordination Disorder

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Motor Learning

Over three consecutive days, each child will perform five blocks of Purdue Pegboard Test: one block before, three blocks during, and one block after tDCS. Each block consists of three repetitions of Purdue Pegboard Test with the right hand. The children have to place pins into a pegboard as fast as they can in 30 seconds. It will take up to 10 minutes of brain stimulation time. After the Purdue Pegboard Test, each child will receive cognitive-based intervention for printing skills for 20 minutes while receiving tDCS. "Printing Like a Pro!" (Montgomery 2017) -a cognitive approach to teaching printing to primary school-age children-will be used to teach letters which each child has the most difficulty printing legibly as identified on a formal assessment of handwriting-ETCH (manuscript) (Amundson 1995).

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • University of Calgary

    collaborator OTHER

  • University of British Columbia

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Jill G Zwicker, PhD, OT · University of British Columbia

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
DOUBLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
7 Years
Max Age
12 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2018-09-27
Primary Completion
2021-06-30
Completion
2021-06-30

Countries

  • Canada

Study Locations

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