Ana Phelippeau, a PhD student at the Motion Lab directed by Joël Chevrier, has been awarded a grant from the Fondation pour la Recherche en Psychomotricité et Maladies de Civilisation (FRPMC).
Visit FRPMC believes that to boost research in psychomotricity, we need to encourage the emergence of future clinician-researchers and teacher-researchers. To this end, we support students wishing to enroll in psychomotricity research programs, as well as researchers and laboratories working in the field of psychomotricity.
The aim is to promote the careers of research psychomotricians at different stages of their training. The «psychomotricien - objectif doctorat» prize supports the work of doctoral psychomotricians.
Ana Phelippeau leads a research project on the neuromotor prerequisites of writing for children.
Children are taught to write from an early age. This skill will later be essential for their development, learning and future professional life. However, not all children evolve at the same pace. This research will enable us to understand, from a neurodevelopmental and biomechanical point of view, the developmental trajectory required to achieve the writing gesture. To carry out this study, researchers will create new diagnostic and screening tools.
By making the link between neurological maturation and muscular maturation, it will be possible to determine whether, at such a young age, the delay in learning to write is due to a deficit or insufficient maturity. This study will thus make it possible to question the legitimacy of handwriting rehabilitation.
This project is in line with two of the FRPMC's priorities, namely «psychomotor organization at different ages», since this work will provide a better understanding of the development of fine motor skills, grasping and manipulative abilities in children. On the other hand, this project responds to the priority «psychomotor implications in learning disorders», since the studies resulting from this thesis will provide insights that will help clinicians to better diagnose and treat motor disorders related to grasping and manipulation.
