Motor Development of Children and Adolescents with Mental Disorders

This study estimate and evaluate the status of motor development in children and adolescents with intellectual disabilities, within upper grades of Special elementary (aged up 11-12 to 14-15) and Special secondary children (up 16 to 21) years of age. The basic purpose of this study was to determine the significance of gender (male/female) difference, grade-level differences in the basic motor development, related to the different IQ-Intellectual maturity sub-categories. Additionally, of special interest in this study was to establish the correlations among variables for the estimation of motor development, (PFT), chronological age (Age/M), educational performance/academic achievement (ScSs) and intellectual maturity (IQ) of the participants.