Visual, kinaesthetic and cross‐modal judgements of length by clumsy children: a comparison with young normal children

Hulme, Charles; Smart, Anne; Moran, Georgina; McKinlay, Ian

doi:10.1111/j.1365-2214.1984.tb00171.x

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“…Pointing with the non-preferred hand reflected the findings when the scores of the two hands were combined, i.e. significant differences, in favour of the control children, in the three conditions V, VH and H. These results support both the visual deficit hypothesis and the findings from studies that have suggested that difficulties in processing felt (kinaesthetic) information are largely responsible for impaired perceptuo-motor performance (Laszlo and Bairstow 1985;Laszlo et al 1988;Hulme et al 1982aHulme et al , 1984.…”

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“…Thus, the results of earlier studies, in which scores derived from only the preferred hand or a combination of both hands were used Hulme et al 1982aHulme et al , 1984Smyth 1991Smyth , 1994, might need to be qualified. At the same time, they point to possible underlying neurological disorders in the HECP children that might mediate in the poor performance with the non-preferred hand.…”

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“…1 : 1 modality has attracted less attention, the findings of Bairstow and Laszlo (1981), Laszlo and Bairstow (1985), Laszlo et al (1988) and Hulme et al (1982aHulme et al ( , 1984 suggest that children diagnosed as clumsy might well manifest such a deficiency. Jongmans (1989) goes so far as to argue that visual perceptual deficits are less well supported by experimental findings than are kinaesthetic.…”

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Inter- and intra-sensory modality matching in children with hand-eye co-ordination problems

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Inter- and intra-sensory modality matching by 8-year-old children diagnosed as having hand-eye co-ordination problems (HECP) and by a control group of children without such problems were tested using a target-location and pointing task. The task required the children to locate target pins visually (seen target), with the hand (felt target) or in combination (felt and seen target), while pointing to the located target was always carried out without vision. The most striking finding, for both the control and the HECP children, was the superiority of performance when the target had to be located visually. When combined scores for both hands were analysed, the HECP children showed inferior performance to the control children in both inter- and intra-modal matching. Analyses of the scores achieved with the preferred and non-preferred hand separately, however, demonstrated that the differences between the HECP and the control children could, in the main, be attributed to lowered performances when the non-preferred hand was used for pointing to the target. When pointing with the preferred hand, the only significant difference between the groups was when the target was visually located, the control children showing superior performance. Pointing with the non-preferred hand gave rise to significant differences, in favour of the control children, when the target was located visually, with the hand or in combination. These findings suggest that earlier studies, using only the preferred hand or a combination of the scores of both hands, might need to be qualified. Putative neurological disorders in the HECP children are invoked to account for the poor performance with the non-preferred hand.

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Inter- and intra-sensory modality matching in children with hand-eye co-ordination problems

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“…There is some disagreement in the literature over whether children should be introduced to handwriting techniques before they are perceptually mature enough to cope with the perceptual dimensions this entails (Bryant, 1974;Hulme, 1988). This assumption undermines the Teodorescu programme and questions its feasibility.…”

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A Perceptuo-Motor Approach to Handwriting

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1996

British Journal of Occupational Therapy

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The process of handwrttlng Involves the complicated coordination of motor, perceptual and cognitive skills, which do not develop spontaneously but require considerable explanation, experimentation, demonstration and practice. This Is an area In which pupil support services and occupational therapists are Increasingly being asked for advice.This article describes the evaluation of a unique programme of motor and perceptual exercises, which alms to develop the control and presentation of the written word. The 'Teodorescu' programme has been found to be beneficial In Improving the handwriting of many children, Including those with mild learning dlfftcultles and those with perceptucHnotor weaknesses.

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“…Children with DCD present with a wide range of deficits including the use of proprioception [3,4], visuo-spatial perception [5,6] and response selection [7]. However, it is not clear if the visual-motor deficits seen in these children extend to perceptual tasks with a visual demand but no motoric component.…”

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confidence: 98%