Effects of Active Video Gaming on Pre-handwriting Skills of Children With Down Syndrome.
Condition: Down Syndrome
MeSH terms: Down Syndrome; Syndrome
Study type: Interventional

Summary: 
      Down's syndrome is a genetic disorder caused by trisomy 21. Down's syndrome is most common
      genetic mental disability that affects children physically, mentally and functionally. It
      occurs due to an extra copy of chromosome 21. It involves a slightly flattened facial
      profile, low muscle tone upward-slanted eyes, and ligamentous laxity. Central hypotonia,
      mental retardation and short stature are very common features of children with down's
      syndrome. Children with down's syndrome are characterized by awkward movements, gait,
      increased flexibility of joints, timing of mastering of basic skills and , under-development
      of fine motor skills. Active video gaming used different games that involve interactive
      session that can enhance cortical recognition, motor learning and functional profile of
      children with DS. The objective of this study is to determine the effects of active video
      gaming on pre-hand writing skills of children with down's syndrome. This will be a
      RCT(Randomized Controlled Trial).The sample size was 18 and the study design was a
      case-control trial. The inclusion criteria are children with down syndrome age 6 to 12 years
      both male and female patients are randomly selected and children with poor pre-hand writing
      skills. And the exclusion criteria for this study is children with any other neurological
      condition like (epilepsy, instability of atlantoaxial joints, cardiac anomalies,) vision, and
      hearing loss. Two groups were randomly assigned and equally divided patients into each group.
      Group A received pre-handwriting skills, like tracing alphabets and numbers, scribbling,
      coloring, painting, and group B received active video gaming and prehandwriting skills. For
      measuring each group developmental coordination

      disorder questionnaire tool is used. The session will be taken 30 mins thrice a week for
      (8consecutive weeks). Data collected from different centers, Raising sun institute of special
      education. Autism resource center Lahore. SPSS for Windows software, version 25 will be used
      to analyze the data using statistical Significance p=0.05. The Shapiro-Wilk test will be used
      to check the normality of data. Keywords: Active video gaming, Down syndrome, Computer game,
      Fine motor skills, Pre-hand writing skills, Virtual reality gaming.
    

Detailed description: 
      To determine the effects of active video gaming on pre-hand writing skills of children with
      down syndrome.
    

Intervention name(s): wii sports game; pre-hand writing skills
Intervention type(s): Device; Other
Intervention description(s): wii sports is a collection five sports game stimulation,which have been designed to demonstrate the motion sensing capabilities of wii remote; pre-hand writing skills
Other intervention name(s): video gaming
Allocation: Randomized
Intervention model: Parallel Assignment
Intervention model description: Effects of active video gaming on pre-handwriting skills of children with down's
syndrome.
Masking: Single (Participant)
Primary purpose: Treatment