ERIC ED374602: Educational Interventions for Visual Motor pdf

ERIC ED374602: Educational Interventions for Visual Motor

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This practicum was designed to remediate handwriting skills in school-aged children who displayed visual-motor deficiencies that affect mechanical skills. Practicum goals were to: (1) identify and diagnose children with handwriting delays; (2) involve school and parent interaction by involving them with pre- and post-program assessment; (3) involve identified children in a visual-motor program to develop mechanical abilities; and (4) measure data to assess effects of training on individual children. Ten students referred to a private clinic providing educational, psychological, rehabilitation, visual, and medical services served as subjects. Practicum activities included using computer programs to develop visual tracing, closure, pursuits, and spatial integration and using haptic writing and visual auditory tactile kinesthetic integration to reinforce the visual-motor process. Results indicated that 8 of 10 children showed improvement in visual-motor integration skills, 5 children showed improvement in visual skills related to handwriting functioning, and parents and teachers reported significant improvements in children’s handwriting abilities.

Appendices contain a referral form, a case history form, a handwriting checklist, a handwriting inventory, and a discussion of remediation techniques for improving handwriting. (Contains 40 references.) (JDD

• Creator/s: ERIC
• Date: 8/10/1994
• Year: 1994
• Book Topics/Themes: ERIC Archive, Computer Assisted Instruction, Elementary Education, Eye Hand Coordination, Handwriting, Perceptual Motor Coordination, Perceptual Motor Learning, Psychomotor Skills, Remedial Instruction, Sensory Integration, Spatial Ability, Writing Difficulties, Writing Instruction

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