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Table 2 Teachers' Rating and PANESS Assessment

From: The development of postural strategies in children: a factorial design study

Teachers' Rating

Cluster

Definition

Score

Read and Write

reading: speed and correctness writing: tract quality and correctness oral language production (vocabulary richness and fluency and structure)

Scoring 0–3

0 is best score

Arithmetics

Arithmetics text: reading and placing numbers

Arithmetcs logic: operations

Sequences: understands and repeats sequences days, months, alphabets and multiplication tables

Scoring 0–3

0 is best score

Attention and Movement

Motor activity in the gym/garden: follow instructions without confusing left-right, in/out

Motor activity in class: from being able to sit still, to fine movements to gross movements he cannot avoid Attention: attention span

Scoring 0–3

0 is best score

Behavior:

creativity: having many interests

Social behavior: being integrated in class group and having friends

Team working: following group rules

Autonomy: not needing continuous instructions

Scoring 0–3

0 is best score

PANESS*

Cluster

Definition

Score

Errors

errors on tip-toe walking

errors on heel walking

errors on nose-finger (right)

errors on nose-finger (left)

scoring 0–3, depending on total number of errors (oscillations or falls during walking, misses or wrong fingers during other tests)

Precision

Index-little tapping on thumb (right)

Index-little tapping on thumb (left)

Tandem walking

sequence of movements is correct from index to little with no repetitions or misses independently of rhythm Scoring 0–3.

Rhythm

Index-little tapping on thumb (right)

Index-little tapping on thumb (left)

Tandem walking

the self chosen rhythm is kept during task independently of misses of repetitions.

Scoring 0–3.

  1. *Adapted from Denckla [35].
  2. Total scores for PANESS and Teachers' Rating were obtained by summing each cluster value. Subjects were excluded if at least one total score was outside [10–90] percentile.