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Follow-up after neonatal venoarterial ECMO in children at age 5 showed 17% of children with major or minor neurological disorders and 26% with some kind of motor difficulty.
Twenty-four children (26.1%) were classified as having some kind of motor difficulty (percentile score < P 15), which represents a significantly higher proportion than expected (chi-square test, P < 0.005).
Symptoms that were present but variable in our cohort include epilepsy (2/5, generalized tonic-clonic seizures only in patient 5, and refractory myoclonic, tonic and generalized tonic-clonic seizures in patient 2) movement disorders (2/5, adventitial movements causing fine motor difficulty [1] and athetoid movements with episodic opisthotonic posturing [1]), and metatarsus adductus (2/5).
Another 24 children (26.1%) of the children who participated in the neuromotor assessment presented with some kind of motor difficulty, 14 of whom (15.2%) had an actual motor problem and 10 of whom (10.9%) were at risk for a motor problem.
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"People who stutter have motor difficulties in producing fluent speech," said Luc De Nil, a speech-language pathologist at the University of Toronto.
This technique was originally used, with considerable success, in children with cerebral palsy, in whom motor difficulties may make it impossible to speak.
For motor difficulties, one can guide practice in an assisted environment, or practice simpler subtasks.
Several studies report a high percentage of premature infants presenting perceptual motor difficulties at school age.
There are a large number of children with motor difficulties including those that have difficulty producing movements qualitatively well enough to improve in perceptuo-motor learning without intervention.
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