A Study of Body Coordination Ability of Mentally Retarded Children : Application of Kobayashi-Kiphard BCT (The Body Coordination Test)

Despite the importance of motor delay of children with mentally retarded, there is surprisingly little information on their motor development, especially body motor coordination. E. Kiphard in West Germany was one of researcher who attended to this phenomena of the motor disorder of handicapped person. In 1976 Kiphard and his group developed motor coordination test which are able to judge as being the suspect of motor disorder of children. We are interesting this Kiphard's test and continue standazation in Japanese children include mentally handicapped persons. The aims of the present investigation were (1) to describe a state of the body coordination of the mentally retarded persons related to the different type such as simple mentally retarded, autistic handicapped with mentally retarded, Down syndrome, epileptic handicapped with mentally retarded; (2) to make Motor Quotient Table for the mentally retarded persons. The results and conclusions of this study are as follows; It was confirmed that was able to evaluate simply, easily and correctly motor coordination ability using this MQ scale for the mentally handicapped persons. And persons who showed lower MQ scores like epileptic and autistic childen with mentally retarded than simple mentally retarded persons were referred to be more neuromotor disorder than the latter