Motohide Miyahara

• PhD
• Affiliated with Institute of Ars Vivendi Ristumeikan University as a Visiting Researcher and Japan Centre for Evidence Based Practice as a Trainer

This article theoretically and practically navigates the controversy of whether delayed motor development should be identified through large-scale screening and addressed through the healthcare system with a diagnosis of Developmental Coordination Disorder (DCD) or Dyspraxia. It critically evaluates the surveillance of atypical motor development, u...

Adolescents with physical disabilities face unique challenges associated with impairments and with how society views them. In general, their experiences and feelings are more similar to their peers than dissimilar when they live in an equitable society that provides adequate access, support, and care. Naturally, each adolescent needs to be consider...

Developmental Coordination Disorder (DCD)/Dyspraxia features a significant delay in lifespan motor development, which limits daily activities and restricts participation. This study aimed to systematically review and comprehensively synthesize the subjective experiences of activity and participation in individuals with DCD/Dyspraxia and their famil...

This article presents a phenomenological study on lived and living conscious experiences of improvisational dance. Six experienced improvisational dancers and one dance piano accompanist were interviewed individually, and shared the past-lived experience of improvisational dance. After the interviews, the six dancers agreed to perform solo improvis...

To cite this supplementary booklet: Miyahara, M., Butson, R., Cutfield, R., & Clarkson, J. E. (2009). A pilot study of family focused tele-intervention for children with developmental coordination disorder: Development and lessons learned. Telemedicine and e-Health, 15(7), 707-712. http://doi.org/10.1089/tmj.2009.0022

To cite this supplementary booklet: Miyahara, M., Butson, R., Cutfield, R., & Clarkson, J. E. (2009). A pilot study of family focused tele-intervention for children with developmental coordination disorder: Development and lessons learned. Telemedicine and e-Health, 15(7), 707-712. http://doi.org/10.1089/tmj.2009.0022

Japan is known for the highest life expectancy in the world, but there are regional variations within the country. Aomori, located at the northern tip of Japan’s mainland, is the prefecture characterized by heavy snow in winter and the lowest average life expectancies for women and men. Their short life expectancies have been attributed to excessiv...

Despite the widespread popularity of mindfulness meditation for its various benefits, the mechanism underlying the meditation process has rarely been explored. Here, we present two preliminary studies designed to test alternative hypotheses: whether the effect of brief guided mindfulness meditation on empathic concern arises from verbal suggestion...

Through fieldwork at a remedial education program site, this ethnographic study describes how and why children with developmental disorders enjoy learning activities. The theoretical framework of physical literacy draws on the Realist Evaluation paradigm. In the initial stage, the first author, an outsider to the program, used the impressionist mod...

Through fieldwork at a remedial education program site, this ethnographic study describes how and why children with developmental disorders enjoy learning activities. The theoretical framework of physical literacy draws on the Realist Evaluation paradigm. In the initial stage, the first author, an outsider to the program, used the impressionist mod...

In a population-based developmental screening program, healthcare providers face a practical problem with respect to the formation of groups to efficiently address the needs of the parents whose children are screened positive. This small-scale pilot study explored the usefulness of cluster analysis to form type-specific support groups based on the...

Visual self-body recognition is one of the fundamental cognitive functions, and a major contributor to social development. Previous studies have shown that body identity judgement becomes difficult when subjects viewed their hand from a third-person perspective, and that this perspective effect was not observed when viewing the hand of another pers...

This multiple case study describes how a concurrent delivery of clinic and home programs for children with developmental coordination disorder (DCD) would work. The significance of the study lies in the increased awareness of diverse family needs and capacities to support children with DCD at home.

Abstract Objective: This review aims to synthesize existing qualitative studies on the experiences of activity limitations and participation restrictions in individuals with developmental coordination disorder/dyspraxia, their families, and service providers. Introduction: Developmental coordination disorder features a significant delay in lifes...

The lateral occipitotemporal cortex (LOTC) that responds to human bodies and body parts has been implicated in social development and neurodevelopmental disorders like autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Neuroimaging studies using a representational similarity analysis (RSA) revealed that body representation in the LOTC of typically developing (TD) adu...

A framework of literacy may have roles to play in the assessment and treatment of children and youth with developmental disorders. This review aims to evaluate the conventional practice of assessment and treatment for children and youth with a developmental disorder in the physical domain, called developmental coordination disorder (DCD), and explo...

The lateral occipitotemporal cortex (LOTC) that responds to human bodies and body parts has been implicated in social development and neurodevelopmental disorders like autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Neuroimaging studies using a representational similarity analysis (RSA) revealed that body representation in the LOTC of typically developing (TD) adu...

The second meta review on the intervention for children with Developmental Coordination Disorder: how robust is our recent evidence?

https://hrbopenresearch.org/articles/2-28/v1#referee-response-26940

Background Individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) appear to have a unique awareness of their own body, which may be associated with difficulties of gestural interaction. In typically developing (TD) individuals, the perception of body parts is processed in various brain regions. For instance, activation of the lateral occipito-temporal cor...

An interdependence approach to empathic concern could transform the current societal environment for people with disability into a more accessible and equitable one. To our knowledge, this is the first study to investigate two possible factors influencing empathic concern, gender and ethnic culture, in specific helping scenarios. We first examined...

Emotions are embedded in culture and play a pivotal role in making friends and interacting with peers. To support the social participation of students with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) it is essential to understand their emotional life in the context of ethnic and school cultures. We are particularly interested in how anxiety and loneliness are...

Inclusive physical education (PE) for students with disability (SWD) evolved in line with ethical requirements and stakeholder morality. While inclusive PE is embraced at a conceptual level and desired at the classroom level, the complexity of successful implementation often remains overlooked in policy and curriculum guidelines. Qualitative studie...

Cultivating empathy and prosocial attitude towards disability is a first step for university students to become the leaders of society and professions to create accessible environments and inclusive society. Gauging levels of empathy and prosocial attitude towards disability among the students is important for evaluating the adequacy of disability...

An interdependence approach to empathic concern could transform the current societal environment for people with disability into a more accessible and equitable one. To our knowledge, this is the first study to investigate two possible factors influencing empathic concern, gender and ethnic culture in specific helping scenarios. We first examined w...

Background: Developmental co-ordination disorder (DCD) is a common childhood disorder, which can persist into adolescence and adulthood. Children with DCD have difficulties in performing the essential motor tasks required for self-care, academic, social and recreational activities. Objectives: To assess the effectiveness of task-oriented interve...

To prevent future burnout and turnover among early childhood education students, mindfulness training may hold promise as a measure. A lab-based pilot and classroom-based feasibility study was designed to investigate an effective way to introduce mindfulness meditation. Results suggested that two types of audio-guided mindfulness meditation, a sitt...

Background: Systematic reviews and meta-analyses are considered to be the 'gold standards' for synthesizing research evidence in particular areas of enquiry. However, such reviews are only useful if they themselves are conducted to a sufficiently high standard. The aim of this study was to conduct a narrative meta-review of existing analyses of th...

Objective: To examine prospectively multiple indicators of pregnancy health and associations with adverse birth outcomes within a large, diverse sample of contemporary women. Design: A cohort of pregnant women who gave birth during 2009-10. Population: We enrolled a sample of 6822 pregnant New Zealand (NZ) women: 11% of all births in NZ during...

Background: Accessibility to physical activity in the form of sport and recreation for people with disability has been investigated primarily from the perspective of service consumers. This study aimed to increase insights into the factors that influence accessibility to sport and recreation activity for people with long-term mobility impairment fr...

This commentary is on the original article by Hua et al.

Cognitive rehabilitation has been developed to improve quality of life, activities of daily living and mood for people with cognitive impairment, but the voice of people with cognitive impairment has been underrepresented. This study aimed to understand the experience of people living with cognitive impairment, as well as their caregivers who took...

To examine the usefulness of temporal measures of motor activity during psychometric assessment on two different assessment days, 1 week apart with a scope to help the early identification of hyperactivity. Actigraph measures at the ankle and the waist were compared on the first and the second days of psychometric assessment in a total of 169 child...

This is the protocol for a review and there is no abstract. The objectives are as follows: To assess the effectiveness of task-oriented interventions on movement performance, psychosocial functions, activity, and participation for children with DCD. To examine differential intervention effects as a factor of age, sex, severity of DCD, intervention...

Aims Standardised assessment tools for developmental coordination disorder (DCD) do not always seem to agree with each other, which causes problems in making clinical and research decisions. This case study research aims to first determine whether or not three standardised assessment tools converge on diagnostic categories of DCD and, second, exami...

Purposes: To identify and appraise evidence from published systematic and meta analytic reviews on (1) movement differences of individuals with autism spectrum disorders (ASD); (2) the effects of movement based interventions for ASD; (3) hypothesized underlying neural mechanisms for the movement characteristics. Methods: A meta review of published...

Face perception is critical for social communication. Given its fundamental importance in the course of evolution, the innate neural mechanisms can anticipate the computations necessary for representing faces. However, the effect of visual deprivation on the formation of neural mechanisms that underlie face perception is largely unknown. We previou...

The association of verbal labels with visuo-spatial patterns and sequences detectably alters neuronal activity in the brain in ways that have yet to be fully characterized. This study investigated the neural substrates involved in the effect of spontaneous verbal labeling on memorizing increasingly complex sequences of hand movements. We used funct...

The following Abstract on page 8 of the Final Program of the INS Mid-Year Meeting in Auckland, NZ was inadvertently listed as “Withdrawn” from Presentation. Indeed, this abstract was presented on Friday, July 8, 2011. The INS mistakenly believed that the author was absent from the Mid-Year meeting and thus the Withdrawn banner was placed on his abs...

The recognition of threatening faces is important for making social judgments. For example, threatening facial features of defendants could affect the decisions of jurors during a trial. Previous neuroimaging studies using faces of members of the general public have identified a pivotal role of the amygdala in perceiving threat. This functional mag...

A survey was distributed to parents at a conference organized by a dyspraxia support group, and mailed twice to the members with the support group’s newsletters. Of 118 respondents, 84% reported that their children were diagnosed with dyspraxia, whereas 25% stated that their children’s diagnosis was developmental coordination disorder. All responde...

Broca’s area has been associated with speech production, gesture recognition and imitation, working memory and object naming. The process of verbal labelling of sequential gestures involves all these functions of Broca’s area. Ontgenic and phylogenic development from gestural to verbal communication may be driven by neural efficiency for employing...

Previous studies suggest that the brain network responsible for the recognition of facial expressions of emotion (FEEs) begins to emerge early in life. However, it has been unclear whether visual experience of faces is necessary for the development of this network. Here, we conducted both psychophysical and functional magnetic-resonance imaging (fM...

Aims: Associated movements (AMs) are an indicator of poor movement quality, and are prevalent in children with motor impairment. The ability of children to inhibit AMs has been demonstrated in the hands, but the possibility of reducing AMs that involve both the upper and lower limbs has not been investigated. The aims of this study were to explore...

Background: Specificity and transfer of learning have been examined in experimental studies. However, their findings may not be relevant to practitioners because of the difference between the experiment conditions and teaching situations. This case study investigates the theoretical issue of specificity vs. transfer of learning by conducting balanc...

The abilities to identify threat and learn about affect in facial photographs were compared between a non-autistic university student group (NUS), a matched Asperger's group (MAS) on the Standard Progressive Matrices (SPM), and an unmatched Asperger's group (UAS) who scored lower on the SPM. Participants were given pairs of faces and asked which pe...

Developmental coordination disorder (DCD) is characterized by substantial delay in motor development, despite intact neuromuscular, intellectual, and social functions. Although it is estimated there is one child with DCD in every elementary school classroom, sufficient remedial treatment has not yet been provided in medical or educational systems....

Data from 326 children taught consecutively in a physical education clinic were reviewed. Only 63 children (39 males, 24 females) (19%) met the diagnostic criteria for developmental coordination disorder (DCD) specified by the American Psychiatric Association (2000). The other children were diagnosed with neuromuscular disorders and medical conditi...

This multiple-case study investigated whether an instruction of a verbal labeling strategy could enhance developmental coordination disorder (DCD) as well as developmental dyspraxia (DD) on the basis of relative changes in the Movement Assessment Battery for Children (MABC) Performance Test scores and the Kaufmann Hand Movement Test (KHMT) scores....

To investigate the role that postural stability plays in fine motor control, we assessed kinematics of the head, shoulder, elbow, and the pen during an accuracy drawing task in 24 children. Twelve children were classified into an accurate drawing (AD) group and 12 children into an inaccurate drawing (ID) group based on a manual dexterity task from...

The authors investigated past and present physical activities of 6 older individuals with diverse types of visual impairment who participated in a walking group. The authors identified the participants’ lived experiences of visual impairment and physical activity through interviews and assessed their current activity levels by using pedometers. Vis...

This study used a choice reaction-time paradigm to test the perceived impairment of facial affect recognition in Asperger's disorder. Twenty teenagers with Asperger's disorder and 20 controls were compared with respect to the latency and accuracy of response to happy or disgusted facial expressions, presented in cartoon or real images and in static...

This study examined the role verbal labels play in working memory for hand movements between young and older adults. All young adults formed verbal labels spontaneously to remember hand movements, whereas only 20% of the older adults did so. After instructed to use verbal labels, the older adults performed at a level close to the level of the young...

Previous studies on self-esteem of young people with physical disabilities have yielded discrepant results. There is a need for the succinct synthesis of the studies to understand the relationship between physical disabilities and self-esteem. This study aimed to examine the effects of minor physical disabilities (e.g., clumsiness, developmental co...

The relationship between associated movements (AMs) and level of motor performance is not well understood. In this study we investigated whether children with developmental coordination disorder (DCD), with (n = 10) and without (n = 10) attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), and a control group (n = 10), differed in the severity of AMs. A...

To determine whether manual incoordination is caused by attention deficit or not, we used an accuracy drawing task as a primary task in dual-task and resistance-to-distraction studies, and examined if thus measured attention could differentiate inattention (IA) and combined (CO) subtypes of ADHD. The secondary tasks and distractions failed to lower...

This study examined the effects of trait physical self-esteem (TPSE) and reasons for group rejections upon state physical self-esteem (SPSE) in a social psychology experiment. Two vignettes were prepared for students to imagine themselves being rejected from a group physical activity. In one vignette, students were rejected by chance, whereas in th...

The concurrent validity of the New Zealand Ministry of Education's Health and Physical Education Assessment (HPEA) (Crooks & Flockton, 1999) was examined with the respective items from the Movement Assessment Battery for Children (Henderson & Sugden, 2000) and the Bruininks-Oseretsky Test of Motor Proficiency (Bruininks, 1978) on manual dexterity,...

The teaching process and outcome in a skill theme program and a movement concepts program were described and analyzed in seven children with developmental coordination disorder. It was hypothesized that the skill theme program would improve targeted skills and perceived physical competence, whereas the movement concepts program would improve self-e...

This study examined 1) whether patients diagnosed with dementia of the Alzheimer type spontaneously form verbal labels to remember nonmeaningful sequences of hand movements, 2) whether an instruction for a verbal labeling (VL) strategy could enhance memory performance, and 3) whether a relationship exists between the memory span for hand movements...

Our primary objective in this study was to test the multiple birth hypothesis, which asserts that multiple gestation and delivery, per se, entail a greater likelihood of adverse outcome than for singletons. Our second objective was to assess the power of various neonatal risk indicators to predict developmental status at school age. In particular,...

The aim of this study was to examine whether or not there were any differences in the severity of hyperactivity and the comorbidity of hyperactivity with clumsiness due to the sampling sources of hyperactive children. It was hypothesized that hyperactivity would be more severe and the comorbidity higher in the hospital sample than in the community...

The purpose was to compare quad rugby male athletes with a lesion-matched group of persons without quad rugby experience on self-efficacy expectations for performing quad rugby skills (SEQRS) and activities of daily living (SEADL) skills Each group contained 15 participants. The experimental design was ex post facto. Mann-Whitney U Tests revealed t...

A survey examined the perceptions of 125 Ss who completed a 20-item Semantic Differential ratings for three terms: developmental dyspraxia (DD); developmental coordination disorder (DCD); clumsy child syndrome (CCS). Ss included parents, teachers, physicians, occupational therapists, physiotherapists, psychologists, and speech therapists. Analyses...

The aim of this study was to examine the suitability of the Movement Assessment Battery for Children (Henderson and Sugden, 1992) for use with Japanese children. One hundred and thirty three Japanese children aged seven to eleven years participated in the study. Their performance was compared to the American children of the same age on whom the 199...

Wheelchair athletes are susceptible to injuries related to overuse of the shoulder, in particular shoulder impingement syndrome. The present study examined the relationship of shoulder pain to demographic details, isokinetic strength and muscle balance in 8 elite quadriplegic rugby players. Demographic data were collected using personal interviews...

This article discusses the role developmental dyspraxia plays in developmental coordination disorder (DCD), based upon a review of literature on apraxia, developmental dyspraxia, and DCD. Apraxia and dyspraxia have often been equated with DCD. However, it is argued that apraxia and dyspraxia primarily refer to the problems of motor sequencing and s...

The purpose of this study was to identify possible subtypes of students with learning disabilities based upon gross motor functions. Subjects in a private school for learning difficulties were divided into a group of students with learning disabilities and a comparison group. Gross motor subtests from the Bruininks-Oseretsky Test of Motor Proficien...

This overview will provide the participants in the New Zealand-Japan Joint Workshop on Social Support for Developmental Disabilities with theoretical frameworks, including key concepts from the literature on social support, developmental disabilities, stress coping, and quality of life, for the planning of a cross-national study by specifying resea...

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of California, Los Angeles, 1993. Typescript (photocopy). Vita. Includes bibliographical references.