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Rhythm Effect on Dance Learning in Typical Development Children and Children With Motor Disorders.
Led by University Hospital, Toulouse · Updated on 2025-12-31
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Participants Needed
1
Research Sites
130 weeks
Total Duration
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AI-Summary
What this Trial Is About
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.
CONDITIONS
Official Title
Rhythm Effect on Dance Learning in Typical Development Children and Children With Motor Disorders.
Who Can Participate
Eligibility Criteria
You may qualify if you...
- Aged from 8 to 16 years inclusive
- Written informed consent from parents or guardians
- Informed consent from the child participant
- Affiliation with or beneficiary of a social security scheme
- Ability to understand instructions as assessed by the investigator
- For children with motor disorders (MD):
- For Cerebral Palsy (CP): diagnosis confirmed
- Gross Motor Function Classification System level I to IV
- Manual Ability Classification System level I to IV
- For Developmental Coordination Disorder (DCD): diagnosis confirmed
- For children with typical development:
- No diagnosis of CP
- No neurological or functional disorders including DCD
You will not qualify if you...
- Diagnosed autism spectrum disorder
- Hearing deficiency diagnosed or uncorrected that prevents hearing music at 45 to 70 decibels
- Visual deficiency diagnosed
- Intellectual developmental disorder diagnosed
- Behavioral disorders diagnosed
- Diagnosed epilepsy
- Pregnancy or breastfeeding
- Participation in other ongoing interventional studies
- Children with both parents under legal protection (guardianship, curatorship, safeguard of justice)
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Trial Site Locations
Total: 1 location
1
Toulouse Hospital
Toulouse, France
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Research Team
D
David GASQ, MD
CONTACT
J
Jessica TALLET, PhD
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How is the study designed?
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Masking
DOUBLE
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Model
CROSSOVER
Primary Purpose
BASIC_SCIENCE
Number of Arms
2
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