Author(s)

Jingjian Shen

Corresponding Author

Jingjian Shen

Abstract

This paper aims to explore the effect of functional motor training on children's sensory integration ability. From March to June 2023, 27 children aged 3-6 with SID were selected from a kindergarten and randomly divided into control group (n = 14) and experimental group (n = 13). The experimental group received functional motor training for 30 min each time, 3 times a week for 16 weeks. The control group continued with the usual activity schedule. Before and after the experiment, vestibular dysfunction, tactile defense and proprioceptive dysregulation in the children's sensory integration development rating scale were used to evaluate. After intervention, the improvement of SID in the experimental group was better than that in the control group (P < 0.05). There were no significant differences in vestibular dysfunction, tactile defense and proprioceptive dysregulation scores before and after intervention in control group (P > 0.05). After intervention, the scores of the experimental group were significantly improved (P < 0.01), and significantly higher than that of the control group (P < 0.01). The above results show that functional motor training can effectively improve children's vestibular dysfunction, tactile defense and proprioceptive dysfunction.

Keywords

Functional motor training; Sensory integration ability; child