VIDBE-Q 2025 Volume 70 Issue 4
motor milestones associated with lower motor competence in comparison to their
peers without sensory impairments. Children without sensory impairments often
develop fine and gross motor skills through exploration of their environment and
play with toys or other children. However, children with deafblindness or
CHARGE syndrome often lack the same opportunities, support, or confidence as
their peers without sensory impairments to develop their skills. Providing youth
with deafblindness proper toys, areas to play, and other children or caregivers can
help promote physical activity. There is a dire need for more research and
interventions to be conducted on youth with deafblindness to further understand
how to most effectively improve their motor competence and increase their
physical activity and lead healthy independent lives.
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