THROW AND CATCH THE BALL GAMES FOR CHILDREN WITH DYSKINESIA-TYPE CEREBRAL PALSY TO IMPROVE EYE-HAND COORDINATION MOVEMENTS

Disabled children have primary or secondary disorders in the muscular, bone, and joint systems that result in
impaired coordination, communication, adaptation, mobility, and disruption of personal needs. This study aims
to identify the effect of throwing and catching the ball games on the improvement of coordination movement in
children with dyskinesia-type cerebral palsy. The population and sample were children with dyskinesia-type
cerebral palsy. It was conducted in a foundation that was specially established to educate children with special
needs, called YPAC (Foundation for Development of Disabled Children). It used an experimental method of a
single subject research (SSR) design to determine the effect of the treatment on one subject. In total, it consisted
of 15 meetings consisting of 5 meetings at baseline and 10 meetings at intervention. The baseline showed the
ability to coordinate eye-hand movement in children with dyskinesia-type cerebral palsy which reaches 0%. In
the intervention using throwing and catching the ball games, the children’s ability to coordinate the eye-hand
movement increased at the 9th and 10th meetings characterized by the increase in the percentage of 57.1% or
(0.5% of 100%). Based on the results of the research, there is an effect of the throwing and catching the ball
games for children with dyskinesia type cerebral palsy. The intervention affects the target behavior of 57.1% and
an overlap percentage of 0%.