DEVELOPMENTAL APRAXIA AMONG NIGERIAN CHILDREN IN ENUGU, NIGERIA
- 31 July 1987
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology
- Vol. 29 (4), 502-507
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1469-8749.1987.tb02510.x
Abstract
Developmental apraxia was studied among 421 eight- to 12-year-old children attending a normal school in Enugu, Nigeria. 25 children were found to be clumsy, a rate of 5.9 per cent. Neurological examination revealed a higher incidence of abnormality, principally dysdiadochokinesia, among the clumsy children than among a control group. There were no significant differences in perinatal factors between the two groups. The social, educational and psychological implications of developmental apraxia are discussed.This publication has 6 references indexed in Scilit:
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