Visual perceptual deficits in clumsy children

Subtypes of Developmental Coordination Disorder: Research on Their Nature and Etiology

“…In fact, few perceptual deficits are found. Some research has indicated that both visual (e.g., Hulme, Smart, & Moran, 1982) and kinaesthetic (e.g., Laszlo, Bairstow, Bartrip, & Rolfe, 1988) difficulties are common in children with DCD, but according to other studies (e.g., Hoare & Larkin, 1991), there is no relationship between motor coordination and kinaesthetic sensitivity; in addition, in our results, 85% of the children performed equally well in auditory-visual-kinaesthetic tasks and 79% in visual perception. Henderson, Barnett, and Henderson (1994) did not establish any significant correlation between a visual discrimination task and any of the other motor tasks.…”

Information Processing Deficits Associated with Developmental Coordination Disorder: A Meta-analysis of Research Findings

“…With respect to perceptual processing, putative deficits include visual perception (Hulme, Biggerstaff, Moran, & McKinlay, 1982 ;Hulme, Smart, & Moran, 1982 ;Hulme, Smart, Moran, & Raine, 1983 ;Hulme, Smart, Moran, & McKinlay, 1984 ;Lord & Hulme, 1987a, 1988a, kinaesthetic perception (the perception of limb movement and limb position) (Bairstow & Laszlo, 1981 ;Laszlo & Bairstow, 1983, 1985Laszlo, Bairstow, Bartrip, & Rolfe, 1988), and cross-modal perception (or the transfer of information between sensory modalities) (Newnham & McKenzie, 1993). With respect to perceptual processing, putative deficits include visual perception (Hulme, Biggerstaff, Moran, & McKinlay, 1982 ;Hulme, Smart, & Moran, 1982 ;Hulme, Smart, Moran, & Raine, 1983 ;Hulme, Smart, Moran, & McKinlay, 1984 ;Lord & Hulme, 1987a, 1988a, kinaesthetic perception (the perception of limb movement and limb position) (Bairstow & Laszlo, 1981 ;Laszlo & Bairstow, 1983, 1985Laszlo, Bairstow, Bartrip, & Rolfe, 1988), and cross-modal perception (or the transfer of information between sensory modalities) (Newnham & McKenzie, 1993).…”

Visual and Motor Sequencing in Normal and Clumsy Children

“…Asecond study,by Hulme, Smart, and Moran (1982), compared normal and clumsy children on simultaneous visual judgments of line length and found, again,that clumsychildren performed worse than normalchildren.Therefore, the decrement in performance found in clumsy children in the Hulme, Biggerstaff, Moran, and McKinlay ( 1982) study could not be attributed to differences in short-term memory between the two groups. Afurther findingof this study was that there were no differences between the two groups related to eye movement problems.…”

“…The role of sequencing visual and motor acts in adult apraxic patients has been especially emphasized (jason, 1983a,b;92 MURPHY,GUNrnR Poeck & Lehmkuhl, 1980;Roy, 1981). On the other hand, recent research performed with clumsy children has attempted to determine whether the difference in motor performance between clumsy and normal children was due to strictly perceptual problems (Hulme, Biggerstaff, Moran, & McKinlay, 1982;Hulme, Smart, & Moran, 1982;Lord & Hulme, 1987). Hulme, Biggerstaff, Moran, and McKinlay (1982) found that although clumsychildren performed worse than normalchildren on visual, kinesthetic, and cross-modal judgmentsof length, the decrement in visual judgmentscorrelated highest with motor performance.…”