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Relationship Between Motor Impairments And Verbal Fluency In Children.
The current study aimed to compare the number
of errors on the verbal fluency test of children with and without
limb motor disorders. The study involved 50 children from 5 to
15 years old; 26 children with similar limb motor disorders and 24
healthy children. Our results showed that motor impairments can
affect verbal fluency. In particular, children with motor
impairments made fewer errors than healthy children (namely
healthy children made more repetitions). These results can be
explained by the fact that the development of speech and executive
functions, with which verbal fluency is associated, depends on the
normal development of motor skills. Thus, we can say that a delay
in the development of motor skills affects the speech functions, and
the speech activity of children is reduced