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The Impact Of Body-Scaled Information On Grasping Action In Toddlers With And Without Down Syndrome, Yuping Chen, Allison Mitch, Kristen Chafin, Rachel Sargent

Physical Therapy Faculty Publications

Background and purpose: Studies of adults and typically developing (TD) children find the number of hands and fingers used to grasp an object is influenced by the relationship between object size and hand size. Children with Down syndrome (DS) between 3 and 11 years have shown no differences in number of hands (1 or 2 hands) used to grasp different sized objects compared to TD children when the object size was body-scaled. The purpose of this study was to examine whether body-scaled information affected the number of hands and fingers used to grasp different sized objects in toddlers with and …