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Overview

Anna L. Barnett is affiliated with Oxford Brookes University in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily focuses on the intersection of psychology and medicine, with significant contributions to developmental and educational psychology as well as pediatrics, perinatology, and child health.

The scientist's work is centered around several main topics that include:

  • Children's Physical and Motor Development
  • Infant Development and Preterm Care
  • Writing and Handwriting Education
  • Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
  • Reading and Literacy Development
  • Family and Disability Support Research
  • Hearing Impairment and Communication

Recent publications by Anna L. Barnett include:

  • Handwriting Difficulties in Developmental Coordination Disorder (DCD), 2020, Current Developmental Disorders Reports
  • Relationships between motor skills and executive functions in developmental coordination disorder (DCD): A systematic review, 2021, Scandinavian Journal of Occupational Therapy
  • Motor Competence Among Children in the United Kingdom and Ireland: An Expert Statement on Behalf of the International Motor Development Research Consortium, 2022, Journal of Motor Learning and Development
  • Association of Gestational Age at Birth With Subsequent Suspected Developmental Coordination Disorder in Early Childhood in China, 2021, JAMA Network Open
  • Association of Gestational Age at Birth With Subsequent Neurodevelopment in Early Childhood: A National Retrospective Cohort Study in China, 2022, Frontiers in Pediatrics

Anna L. Barnett frequently collaborates with several coauthors, including:

  • Wenchong Du
  • Nichola Stuart
  • Jing Hua
  • Teresa Joyce
  • Mellissa Prunty

Their research is published regularly in prominent venues such as:

  • Journal of Motor Learning and Development
  • Current Developmental Disorders Reports
  • Research in Developmental Disabilities
  • Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
  • PsycTESTS Dataset

The scope of Anna L. Barnett's work demonstrates a comprehensive engagement with psychological and medical disciplines related to child development, motor skills, and associated disorders, with an emphasis on developmental coordination disorder and early childhood neurodevelopment indicators.

Best Publications

  • International clinical practice recommendations on the definition, diagnosis, assessment, intervention, and psychosocial aspects of developmental coordination disorder

    Rainer Blank;Anna L. Barnett;John Cairney;John Cairney;Dido Green

  • Movement Assessment Battery for Children-2

    S. E Henderson;D. Sugden;A. L. Barnett

  • The severity and nature of motor impairment in Asperger's syndrome: a comparison with specific developmental disorder of motor function.

    Dido Green;Gillian Baird;Anna L. Barnett;Leslie Henderson

  • The Movement Assessment Battery for Children: a comparison of 4-year-old to 6-year-old children from Hong Kong and the United States.

    Susanna M. K. Chow;Sheila E. Henderson;Anna L. Barnett

  • Structural validity of the Movement ABC-2 test : factor structure comparisons across three age groups

    Joerg Schulz;Sheila E. Henderson;David A. Sugden;Anna L. Barnett

  • Children with dyslexia are slow writers because they pause more often and not because they are slow at handwriting execution

    Emma Sumner;Vincent Connelly;Anna L. Barnett

  • The classification of specific motor coordination disorders in children: some problems to be solved

    Sheila E Henderson;Anna L Barnett

  • The movement assessment battery for children: A preliminary investigation of its usefulness in Japan

    Motohide Miyahara;Masatsugu Tsujii;Tadayuki Hanai;Marian Jongmans

  • Cognitive Outcome at Early School Age in Term-Born Children With Perinatally Acquired Middle Cerebral Artery Territory Infarction

    Daniela Ricci;Eugenio Mercuri;Anna Barnett;Rachel Rathbone

  • The influence of spelling ability on handwriting production: children with and without dyslexia.

    Emma Sumner;Vincent Connelly;Anna L. Barnett

  • Handwriting speed in children with Developmental Coordination Disorder: Are they really slower?

    Mellissa M. Prunty;Anna L. Barnett;Kate Wilmut;Mandy S. Plumb

  • The Detailed Assessment of Speed of Handwriting (DASH). Manual.

    Anna Barnett;Sheila Henderson;B. Scheib;Joerg Schulz

  • An examination of writing pauses in the handwriting of children with developmental coordination disorder.

    Mellissa M. Prunty;Anna L. Barnett;Kate Wilmut;Mandy S. Plumb

  • Clumsiness, Dyspraxia and Developmental Co-ordination Disorder: how do health and educational professionals in the UK define the terms?

    JM Peters;AL Barnett;SE Henderson

  • Constraints and facilitators to participation in physical activity in teenagers with Developmental Co-ordination Disorder: an exploratory interview study.

    A. L. Barnett;H. Dawes;K. Wilmut

  • Can the Griffiths scales predict neuromotor and perceptual-motor impairment in term infants with neonatal encephalopathy?

    A L Barnett;A Guzzetta;E Mercuri;S E Henderson

  • The Influence of Spelling Ability on Vocabulary Choices When Writing for Children With Dyslexia

    Emma Sumner;Vincent Connelly;Anna L. Barnett

  • The movement ABC: a cross-cultural comparison of preschool children from Hong Kong, Taiwan and the USA

    Susanna M.K. Chow;Yung-Wen Hsu;Sheila E. Henderson;Anna L. Barnett

  • Motor Assessment in Developmental Coordination Disorder: From Identification to Intervention.

    Anna L. Barnett

  • Visuospatial Difficulties and Clumsiness: On the Interpretation of Conjoined Deficits

    Sheila E. Henderson;Anna Barnett;Leslie Henderson

  • Development of the Handwriting Legibility Scale (HLS): A preliminary examination of Reliability and Validity

    Anna Louise Barnett;Mellissa Prunty;Sara Rosenblum

Frequent Co-Authors

David Sugden
David Sugden University of Leeds
Elisabeth L. Hill
Elisabeth L. Hill Goldsmiths University of London
Sara Rosenblum
Sara Rosenblum University of Haifa
Robert D. Abbott
Robert D. Abbott University of Washington
Virginia W. Berninger
Virginia W. Berninger University of Washington
Peter H. Wilson
Peter H. Wilson Australian Catholic University
John Cairney
John Cairney University of Queensland
Julie E. Dockrell
Julie E. Dockrell University College London
Howard Ring
Howard Ring University of Cambridge
Anthony J. Holland
Anthony J. Holland University of Cambridge

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