Improving Cognitive Visual-Motor Abilities in Individuals with Down Syndrome

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Torres Carrión, Pablo V.
González González, Carina S.
Toledo Delgado, Pedro A.
Reyes Alonso, Nuria
Hernández Morales, Selene
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Torres Carrión, Pablo V.;
González González, Carina S.;
Toledo Delgado, Pedro A.;
Gil Iranzo, Rosa María;
Reyes Alonso, Nuria;
Hernández Morales, Selene;
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(2019)
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Improving Cognitive Visual-Motor Abilities in Individuals with Down Syndrome.
Sensors, 2019, vol.19, núm. 18, p. 3984.
https://doi.org/10.3390/s19183984.
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Down syndrome causes a reduction in cognitive abilities, with visual-motor skills being
particularly affected. In this work, we have focused on this skill in order to stimulate better learning.
The proposal relies on stimulating the cognitive visual-motor skills of individuals with Down
Syndrome (DS) using exercises with a gestural interaction platform based on the KINECT sensor
named TANGO:H, the goal being to improve them. To validate the proposal, an experimental
single-case study method was designed using two groups: a control group and an experimental
one, with similar cognitive ages. Didactic exercises were provided to the experimental group using
visual cognitive stimulation. These exercises were created on the TANGO:H Designer, a platform that
was designed for gestural interaction using the KINECT sensor. As a result, TANGO:H allows for
visual-motor cognitive stimulation through the movement of hands, arms, feet and head. The “Illinois
Test of Psycholinguistic Abilities (ITPA)” was applied to both groups as a pre-test and post-test in its
four reference sections: visual comprehension, visual-motor sequential memory, visual association,
and visual integration. Two checks were made, one using the longitudinal comparison of the
pre-test/post-test of the experimental group, and another that relied on comparing the difference of the
means of the pre-test/post-test. We also used an observational methodology for the working sessions
from the experimental group. Although the statistical results do not show significant differences
between the two groups, the results of the observations exhibited an improvement in visual-motor
cognitive skills.
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