Movement Disorders in Children: Challenges and Opportunities
A special issue of Children (ISSN 2227-9067). This special issue belongs to the section "Pediatric Neurology & Neurodevelopmental Disorders".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 25 June 2025 | Viewed by 990
Special Issue Editors
Interests: child rehabilitation; motor development; neurorehabilitation; movement analysis; biomechanics
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Interests: child rehabilitation; motor development; neurorehabilitation; movement analysis; biomechanics
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Correct motor development in children is essential to acquire all the motor skills necessary for independence in daily activities. However, alterations in this development are very common disorders, such as movement disorders throughout a child's developmental stage, and can limit the acquisition of gross and fine motor skills.
This Special Issue of Children focuses on the different alterations in motor development in children who present with some type of neurological pathology, such as cerebral palsy, autism spectrum disorder, myopathies, minor neurological dysfunctions, etc., or those who do not present with neurological damage but present deficits in motor development, such as children who are preterm or present with developmental coordination disorders, among others.
Papers addressing these topics are invited for this Special Issue.
Prof. Dr. María Carratalá-Tejada
Prof. Dr. Alicia Cuesta-Gómez
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- motor development
- postural control
- children
- child rehabilitation
- gross motor skills
- fine motor skills
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