The Effect of Exergame and Traditional Games on the Development of Fundamental Movement Skills in Children with Developmental Motor Delay of 7-9 Years Old

The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of exergame and traditional games on the development of fundamental movement skills in 7-9 year old children with developmental motor delay in Yazd.

The experimental design of this study was pretest-posttest with control group. The study population consisted of all children aged 7–9 years of primary school in Yazd in the school year 97-98 who were randomly selected and participated in this study voluntarily. Finally, 60 individuals were selected that fit the research objectives. After that the pre-test was performed using TGMD-2 and based on the scores obtained in these two tests, the volunteers were randomly divided into 3 equal groups (n = 20). The first group performed the Exergame program (athletics, bowling, and wrestling) for 8 weeks (2 sessions per week). The second group performed the traditional training program (sensory-motor training) in 8 weeks (2 sessions per week). The third group was the control group where the volunteers were organized without activity.

The results of the analysis of covariance showed that exergame and traditional exercises had a positive effect on fundamental movement skills of 7-9 years old children and there was a significant difference between traditional and exergame exercises in motor skills discussion of 7-9 years old children. Does not exist. These two types of training programs were more effective than the control group (P