Comparative analysis of the capacity of motor coordination in children with hearing deficiency

Introduction: The study of the motor coordination is approached in several scientific areas as the motor learning, the motor control and the motor development. This makes possible, to check of the degree of the coordinative development in children and young, and later, to suggest intervention measures to correct the detected inadequacies. Objectives: In this investigation it’s interesting to identify the children with motor weakness or coordination inadequacy. Like this, we intended to characterize the capacity of motor coordination in children and to compare the medium values found among normal children and with hearing loss. Methodology and Results: The sample was constituted by 40 children distributed equally in two groups denominated study group (GE), with average of age of 8,88 ± 1,22 years, and group control (GC), with average of 9,34 ±1,00 year-old age. The coordination was evaluated through the battery of tests of corporal coordination (Körperkoordinationtest für Kinder - KTK), being the analyzed results, besides the descriptive measures, for the inference statistics ANOVA and the test Kruskal-Wallis. Conclusions: It is verified that the children with hearing impairment presented medium values of the motor acting inferior to the medium values obtained in normal children of this sample. These results justify the accomplishment of the interventions and futures studies in this population.